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“Bet you thought I was a lost cause, huh?” I joked and reached over for the bottle of water on the table

“No one’s a lost cause, Calida”

“Right, well I’ve taken off those glasses, and the view isfor the bad” I paused Reaching back, I touched the scar through h or whatever, I still find uarded with him”

I thought about our talk a few days ago I never answered his question about the tattoo, and he’d not asked again

“Is this so Malcolm has an issue with?”

I shook my head “He says not everyone is an open book”

“So, this is so that bothers you?”

I nodded “He said that, and in the next breath basically told ically, I know I shouldn’t be s, but I kinda was Crazy, right? What person gets annoyed by their significant other saying so like that?” I stood to move around

“Not crazy You want hio topics so you’ll feel better about yours However, you have to re up and letting him in is still new to you, it’ll take tiht”

I hugged myself as I stared out the fifth-story“I still hate disappointing people Him”

“How did you disappoint him?”

“Because I couldn’t tell him about the tattoo”

I heard the scratching on the paper “What tattoo?”

I turned to face her “I have a tattoo on the back ofof the end Malcolht, and I couldn’t answer him Wouldn’t answer him”

“Why not?”