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“We’re not even dating” LJ banged his head against the wall

“Never? It’s really never crossed your mind?” Keyton lobbed that out there He was on a roll today

The aard silence crept in and he scrubbed his hands down his face “We did try For, like, a split second senior year and then everything hit the fan oncefriends If I’d lost her then… I don’t think I’d have made it, bone marrow or not”

“Maybe you need to show her that you’re not just keeping her around or indebted to her because of what happened with your dad Maybe show her you’d like things to change between you, if that’s what you want”

I headed upstairs and peeled my shirt off in h to my skin

Jules slipped into the room “It smells like a sorority house in here”

“There renadine in whatever Marisa was ”

“It did have the added benefit ofto see you with your shirt off” She pushed off froer, she ran it down my stomach and sucked it into her mouth

Her lips wrapped around it and I wrapped ainst me She was the sexiest wo mine

“I’et a few more inches to fall and keep classes cancelled”

She walked her fingers alongup”

My sexy feelings shrank I fucking hated uys knehen my birthday was It was the worst day of my life The day my mom had du her fade away in the back seat of a taxi She’d left me with a birthday present, a carry-on suitcase andpain than a kid should ever know

“It’s not a big deal” I shrugged, trying to play it cool

Growing up as a foster kid in the placeotten hadn’t meant homemade cakes and rapped presents It meant the teacher announced it in class and everyone bo and why I wasn’t having a party Even now, there was always a prickling claw of terror in ut whenever the day rolled around

“We should do so”