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“Got any other objections?”

Mo shook her head, soft red waves falling around her shoulders,me from the importance of this moment

“But I don’t…why didn’t you open it?”

I shrugged “I didn’t want to risk that the baby wasn’t ht I’d ever experienced, but she needed to hear it

A nervous laugh escaped “I don’t get it, Jasper What’s going on?”

“Ah, so you finally ad about me? About how I feel?”

“So, tell me”

“I tried to tell you, but you weren’t listening You weren’t ready to hear it”

She folded her ar now”

“I got that envelope a week ago, ether lately But I couldn’t open it Been carrying it everywhere with ht moment to open it, but that moment never came”

Mo took a protective step backward “Okay, then, why are you talking aboutthis baby? Why now?”

“I don’t know, Mo Ma woke up, and everyone was there They were happy, and I realized that I didn’t need to worry about theure that maybe it was tiure out what the fuck I wanted for the future”

I hadn’t realized it at the time, but noas clear

“And what did you figure out?”

“Nothing,” I laughed “I didn’t figure it out until just nohat it ht offro, and you knohat?”

She shook her head “What?”

“It was you Your face ca to conjure you up, there you ith that sht Mass uniform”

“And?”

“And usually, when I think about you, Mo, you’re naked and on your knees or ridingin ive you the dick”

“So you want to date me?”