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And the way she’d hugged hiht about so

Was there a giant flashing ‘ht above my head? Because there should be This wasn’t aboutI was using hi anyone else as competition

“Dude, what happened today? Coach was losing his mind in the locker room when you didn’t show” One of the Fulton U football players passed, dropping off that nugget already three sheets to the wind

“You didn’t show” My head whipped around to Berk

“I had so to do”

Berk’s gaze darted to Alexis

Did it have soe his future Standing in his way

“What the hell is that doing out here?” Berk pushed his way through three people and grabbed the old wrapped present that sat beside his cake “Where did you get this?” He shook it at me

My iven it to otten him when they were

growing up that he’d been waiting for the perfect ti with her aboutit in so it in front of everyone at a party would finally get him to rip that paper off

Another lie Another trap I hated her I don’t know that I’d ever truly hated someone before, but I hated her for what she’d done

He charged past everyone and headed for the stairs with the gift cradled in his arms

“Berk! I’m sorry I didn’t know”

“Why can’t you leave things alone, Jules?” He walked away from me like this was tooWithout another word, he spun around and took the stairs three at a time

I followed hiure out how I could fix this “This was a mistake”