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My stoain “No”

“Don’t lie”

“Hey, stop stretching ainst his front in a very inappropriate stop-thinking-naughty-thoughts way

Before I could say anything es of ra me exactly how to cook it on the spot in that little store like a pro

Minutes later, I was atte area in the corner and slurping noodles into my mouth as fast as humanly possible “Let’s never leave this place”

“Wow, all it took was ramen” He blew on his noodles

I looked away from his red lips

And stared into my bowl

“Good?” he asked, sounding pleased with himself as I looked up and locked eyes with him

“Very” I bea me ramen”

It aleted with his chopsticks and shrugged “Any tiuy”

Part of nored it as we fell into comfortable conversation

I was suddenly glad he’d forced et toothpaste with him because at least we could bury the hatchet

I asked questions

And he was open about everything

For the first ti, I felt like I’d finally found a friend I just wished he wasn’t so fa to look at

“Ready?” he asked after du our bowls ten minutes later

“Let’s go” I fell into step beside hirazed htheir presence onto my skin

Friends Just Friends

Chapter Twenty-One

A little competition never hurt anyone

Lucas

They still weren’t back

Why the hell had Rae taken her out anyway? After I was done recording for an hour, I went to the piano and sat Sookie was in his roo he always did when he was deep in thought or stressed out Kai was chatting with Solia on the phone since he’d forgotten to ask her about so, so his door was closed

And Rae ith Grace