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“Maybe we should go” Marisa pushed against the guy behind her

“No, it’s fine I’rabbed my jacket off the couch “I’ll talk to you later, Liv”

“Night,” she called after me as the door closed

I stopped at Fish’s and grabbed a drink before going back to o on like they were I’d have to talk to Grant, would have to break things down and get his went on, the harder it was to iine my life without her

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Liv

After Ford left, I shoved the pictures back in their boxes and joined Marisa and LJ on the couch for an ’80s movie marathon There was no way I could have concentrated on my exams A few days later I picked up some of the developed photos I hadn’t put in their boxes yet Sliding them out of the card stock envelope, I lifted the pictures out

Turning each over, I wrote out the dates, the location, and as going on in the picture The summer at the beach house, love had been in the air as Heath and Kara, and Declan and Mak drowned us all in their PDA There were also copious amounts of booze and the threat of homicide when Emmett and Avery first arrived That had all been smoothed out over the course of the summer If only my love life had followed the same path

I grabbed the next few pictures

My navy cap and gown and gold tassel dangled in front ofwith happiness I was peering up at Ford out of the corner ofmy head, I turned it over and wrote on the back

My graduation, pictured: Colm, Ford, and me

I plucked the next photo fro up the sun the summer before Mak and Declan’

s wedding

Suraduation on the beach, pictured: Kara, Avery, Mak, and me

I flipped another over, and the smile on my face dropped