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I looked from him to her

“And I owe you soainst her bottoured we’d crash here I hope that’s okay with you”

“It’s not like you don’t pay rent” I shrugged and got up from the step

“You won’t even knoe’re here”

“Babe, there’s a stripper pole in this other room! Can ap?”

“No!” we shouted at the same time

Draggingintoat the top of the steps He definitely fit the Zoe-boyfriend-of-the-month-or-possibly-semester mold

Ripplingsure he didn’t rades that would er that would go along with his Fortune 500 job weeks after graduation

He threw me a chin tilt ‘sup’ before I disappeared into my room

I unpacked and printed out ressive one for Buchanan’s class The one I’d be sharing with Berk

I stared at ain X-ray vision and be able to look straight into Berk’s room The room that was the reason my blinds had been closed for the past three years Because I shouldn’t be staring into his bedrooht over my head like a comic book caption, that was how you spelled heartbreak

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Berk

It was nothing I’ve co in my ears days after I’d stood at the botto that aler for her

But then she’d put irl who could do whatever the hell she wanted Just because I was a starting Trojan at Fulton U didn’t ave a crap about all that And while almost everyone over the weekend had been assholes, there were probably guys on her level eren’t like her sister’s friends wanting to take Jules out on fancy dates