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I ju ently “Don’t worry about that I don’t want you to feel aard or anything You were trying todeal” It came out in a rush, all in one breath

I turned my head to the side

He swung his legs up onto the bed and settled on his back, staring straight up at the ceiling

And now I’d officially decided that inviting Berk wasn’t a bad idea at all It was the worst idea

Because I couldn’t stop thinking about that al hands had cupped ently as he was a hairsbreadth away from my lips It was like the lead up to one of the kisses he’d prole one of his letters The kind that made me touch myself under the covers until I moaned his name just like he promised me I would

Da!

He was the perfect gentle his contraband ear buds with ht as we lay side by side in the bed Then, once the song he’d wanted to share with h I’d told hih for the two of us Maybe the almost-kiss had only been to lift my spirits Snap me out of my teary state he’d already seen once today

With lips like those, I was sure he’d found they were the perfect distraction to nearly any woh me at all the women he’d probably kissed because he wanted to, not because he’d felt like it was the nice thing to do My fingers itched to write him a new note, but I couldn’t I’d closed the door on The Letter Girl But those letters were the closest I was going to get to having hihn wasn’t interested

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Berk

I’d rolled off the bed onto the floor, taking a pilloith runted as my not-so-friendly erection ja boners around LJ, Keyton, or Marisa But listening to Ed Sheeran with Jules,every freckle on her face and the way her full lips mouthed the words to the chorus by the end of it had

As she peered down atdown She tucked it behind her ears “Crap, are you okay?”

“Yup, I’ the pillow tocock “The bed’s too soft, so I think I’ll hang out down here for the night”

Jules’ eyes widened and she let the hair fall back over her face “Oh” She snapped back froe of the bed and I flatted onto the floor in relief

“Are you sure? I can take the floor I don’t mind”