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I spun away, keeping ainstan eyeful of me, not that I’d have a choice unless I walked around with ht

“I’ to make us a drink Top shelf booze doesn’t deserve to be all alone at ti the parent slash total lunatic Bottles and glasses clinked together

I crouched to pick up one of , I turned to dus would be okay He wasn’t freaking out and I wasn’t freaking out, so far so good I could wear this outside of the room

“Might as well start now” I turned to hiazes collided

He coughed into the glass he had up to hishis drink all over the place, his eyes got anime character wide before he barked out a, “Holy shit”

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If you were here with hs around your face and let you eatyour name

Holy shit! The soda water burned hed, bent over at the waist There was no saving this and playing it off cool Water dribbled down onto my pristine white and insanely expensive shirt At least I hadn’t opened one of the bottles of wine sitting on the mini-bar

Jules stared at me, frozen in her crouch with some of her clothes bunched up in her hands like a deer in thetoward her

I liked Jules I’d always liked Jules She’s funny and sometimes she lets a little bit of her potty mouth slip out between her unique personality of the next Martha Stewart and a cute anime character She’s not flashy, except when it co that comes out of her oven

I’d looked at her so many tihts stray to her in any way other than as a friend too often, mainly because she’s Elle’s best friend and if I went near her with anything other thanaround my neck, Nix would’ve

She iped off the radar before I lare from Nix and a promise of retribution if I screwed up what he had with Elle in any way, shape, or form, but that’s not to say I didn’t appreciate Jules’ quiet beauty The kind you found yourself sneaking a glance of when she smiled because it was so co other than real

Or the times I’d sit at her kitchen table and talk for hours about our favorite comic book movie I’d chalked it up to the fact that I hadn’t spentfrom me Not status, or a false idea that I had cash to splash around, or any number of reasons With Jules, I could just be and so could she It gave ain, but I knew going in it couldn’t go further

I’d never really been just friends with a girl before, and I liked it