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One as all they had left She didn’t want to think about that

“I’ to Sydney without Levi present,” she said when she’d just been thinking that she didn’t want to saddle Kacey with babysitting during her last week of vacation “I don’t want to do it over the phone”

She needed to be able to reach out and take his hand To see into his eyes To know that they were going to be okay

“You made love with him”

There was no point in denying it And while the sisters didn’t kiss and tell, they usually let the other knohen they were in a physical relationship Up until a year and a half ago, they’d shared the same house And it was polite to let your roo to be at the breakfast table

“Yeah Without telling hi to make his life uncomfortable if he doesn’t do it himself”

“You ith your heart” Kacey knew her well

“You think I should have told him first?”

“I’ that You know your stuff, Lace You’ve always knohen to let others figure things out for theht beside the”

They weren’t talking about Jem Or domestic violence

“We’ve both been kind of cast off at sea, haven’t we?” she said, not regretting a second of what she’d done with Jeloriously happy about it, either There were hurdles in front of thenored

“I thought it was just you,” Kacey told her, taking Lacey’s hand in both of hers and holding it on her knee So she hadn’t done in years but used to do often, Lacey reo on caet nervous so on air

“I thought you were running ahen you came up here, because you were so convinced you were second best”

“In so to clear the air, really clear it, and be as connected as they’d always been—and she hoped they were—then she had to be honest With Kacey, of course, but also with herself “In a lot of ways I was,” she said now

“I know And sometimesI liked it that way It’s like I was the star and you were my sky”