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“You want to get breakfast?” Chase asked as they hit the lights and exited the building

“I have so But thanks for the offer”

“No problerab a breakfast burrito on the way home and crash out No aave a small wave and strolled to he

r bike, looking for all the world like an alternative model with her pierced lip and a full sleeve visible in her short sleeved t-shirt

Symone watched her drive off and placed a call to Gia

“What’s wrong?” Gia asked Her worried tone made her wince

“Nothing If you have the ti overdue talk”

She gasped “There’s a gaggle of people here at the hospital I won’t be missed When and where do you want to meet up?”

“My place in fifteen…twenty minutes?”

“Done”

They disconnected and she walked to her car excited, nervous, and iether floated on the surface of her brain The good, the bad and the indifferent As sisters did, they’d had their knockdown drag outs, and always caether, because in the end, all they had was one another

She steered her car through the streets, reflecting on her history She pulled into the parking lot, cut the engine, and rested her head on the steering wheel Right or wrong, confronting painful things was always difficult, and acknowledging that her feelings were fucked up, cut her deep They said misery loved co Gia, whole, beautiful, and blissfully happy had been a knife turn in a festering wound She’d always be the one who got ahile she stayed behind and lived through hell It was an unfortunate fact, but she didn’t have to let it rule her, or continue to make her bitter

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Any sort of tension between Deot out of the car before she could change her mind and walked to her apart more and more time at Monster’s condo and all her bestthe ones she’d made with Chase She set her purse down on the table near the door and toed off her puh the peephole showed Gia dressed in jeans and a Dueling Devils hoodie

Symone opened the door and stepped back