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He jerked back and I whipped around, s Alexis Berk’s sister His red-haired, looked-nothing-like-hiaze jumped between Berk and Alexis

With ave the run down on what had happened last night

Alexis’s gaze was laser focused on the side of ht her out of the corner of aze was onDid she not like irlfriends? Was I his girlfriend? Had he had other girlfriends? He hadn’t corrected her when she’d called irlfriend!

The questions raced througheven faster around like a roller derby championship

Doors opened and closed upstairs and footsteps hammered on the floor above our heads as the rest of the house woke up

“You live across the street?” Alexis picked up the coffee cakeit for poison

“That crap shack across the street is what I call home”

“It’s way less crappy than it used to be,” Berk butted in “I’ve helped her fix a few things”

Alexis scrunched her shoulders up and shot me a squinty-eyed half smile “How adorable” She took a bite and there was a flash as the brown sugar and cinnah she fought warar siren

That was the look I lived for

A thud hit the stairs like someone had been thron each step

“Do I smell a Jules special delivery?” Keyton rounded the base of the stairs and tossed his duffle beside the front door

“Coffee cake muffins”

Keyton grabbedthe side of els with those tiny little pods of crea to cut it today”

“Could you not paw irl?” Berk brushed him aside and tucked me in under his arm