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Still sweaty froed up the steps to my apartment

Opening the door, I stopped short A tangle of lireeted me by the couch

“Hey, Liv,” they chorused together Marisa blew her hair out of her face, her cheeks flushed red and her body contorted half over and half under LJ

“She tried to take the last Snickers” His words tumbled out as a breathless, choppy mess

“Sharing is caring” She wheezed and shoved at his shoulders Shi and popping a piece of the candy into her ru for each other shined so bright it almost hurt They had this connection that didn’t come around too often I couldn’t hold back my smile that they had each other, but it also constantly reminded me of my third-wheel status

“Maybe I do, ed under the coffee table and shoved the last lonely fun-sized Snickers into histhe whole time

“You’ll pay for that later” Marisa picked up a pillow and chucked it at his head before turning to me “Hoas class?”

“They are blowingthesebetter and better I’ve got so to be insane They’ll hate et them on board”

She laughed and gathered up her books on the coffee table “I meant biochem Didn’t you have a test today?”

“Don’t remind me” I flopped down onto the couch “It was a bloodbath If I get an A minus this semester, it will be a miracle, which means I’m screwed” The knot in my stomach and tension in my shoulders that had relaxed over the sixty minutes of dance were fire without an ulcer, I’d be shocked

“That’s what happens when you’re at the studio nearly every night”

“You’re the one who told me I can’t stay chained to my desk every day”

She held up her hands ina break and hiding fro”

I shrugged as LJ took a bite of a Twizzler

“Where did you get that?” Marisa’s gaze darted to the candy in his hand