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And all it could think about was her About exploding inside her

There was no cal to have sex

Chapter Seventeen

“I’ to have sex with hiht The conversation did not feel at all like so

Angie’s silence hung over her, a heavy weight that hurt She’d debated not telling her sister, but didn’t want to feel like she was doing so she had to hide

“It’s just sex, Angie,” she said now “We’re so different, wanting such different things in lifewe both knoe don’t belong together”

Angie still didn’t say a word

“It’s notto feel defensive when she knew she had no reason to do so “On the contrary, for once I’ested it Only because I know he’s on the saain

“Then you should do it” Her sister didn’t sound angry Or even hurt She didn’t sound happy, either

“You really think so?”

“I do”

“But you aren’t happy about it”

Angie didn’t respond Amelia couldn’t live to please her sister, either Had never felt like she had to do so

“Tellnow, as she sat on her couch in the dark, wishing her sister was in the rooain, in one or the other of their beds, whispering secrets when they were supposed to have been asleep

Secrets girls their age shouldn’t have known to whisper Things drunken Duane had called them that they’d had to look up to find out what they ht be what he said