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“I wouldn’t think of it for a second I’d never come between besties”

MaxJules into a hug “You did good Killer stuff, and I’lad I won’t have to do it now If you’d totally blown it, I was on deck”

“Thanks for the vote of confidence”

“You’re welcome” Max stomped off and accosted Avery and Emmett

“I actually did it” Jules beamed with pride and radiated happiness

The camera crew left a bunch of stuff up, and Jules and Avery worked out their schedule for the rest of the month She was still on cloud nine as we drove back to our street

Once parked in front of her house, I turned off the engine

“Thanks for the ride I’m pretty sure I would’ve fallen asleep on the bus after h wore off, and I’d have crisscrossed the city until ”

“Any time”

“Did you start on the work Buchanan assigned? You’d think he could at least hold off on his cureon attitude until classes actually start” She was talking alooks in my direction

“Jules” I dropped

She stopped htened underout of the car and rolling up onto her lawn like a stuntetaway

“I knohat you said before, but—”

A sharp knock broke the building tension in the car “Berk!”

I dropped rowl of frustration Was I going to have to paddle a boat out into the center of the Schuylkill River to get a second alone with her? Universe—this joke isn’t anywhere near funny