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“Right Yes” The white triroaned “I shouldn’t have put it off so long”

“We’ll figure so out Don’t worry”

“Whoa!” Connor’s exclamation echoed from beyond the short little space, barely a hall, that led to the great room at the back of the house

Seth s the two steps down into the room This was the space Seth could actually be proud of—a vaulted white ceiling ood beaas fireplace stove in one corner and a massive TV in the other A curved black leather sectional with chaises on both ends do the fireplace and the TV On the far side of the roolass door to the patio

“This is dope,” Connor said, gazing around in apparent awe

Seth felt ridiculously pleased to have impressed him “Thanks”

Logan see, which was a navy and gray diamond pattern, and cupped his hands around his eyes to peek out the sliding door “Is that a built-in barbecue?”

“Yep We had a gas line put in, so figured why not?” He’d barely used it, and shifted guiltily “There’s a fire pit back there too The outdoor space was a big selling point And this roo and put in nes It was small and dim before, and now it’s, well, this An improvement, I think”

Logan gave hi in the boxes Have to get Connor back to school by nine”

Mouth full of Doritos, Connor said, “Yeah, you’ll be in shit if you don’t”

It was still jarring to hear the way Connor and Logan cursed freely around each other, but it wasn’t Seth’s place to say anything Logan didn’t see of it, but of course he’d been in the ined he’d become inured to obscenity

They put their boots back on and went out, unloading the boxes and bags into the foyer Between the three of the There were some boxes of kitchen androos up to the spare roouest rooeneric art of a sailboat and a country road up on the pale gray walls

Seth cleared his throat as Logan and Connor caured two bedrooh since I don’t have any family and Brandon’s are real homebodies who don’t travel much There was another s”