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He entered asped

"Randall!" I cried "We'll get into trouble and I can't afford another bit of it!"

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"I'm sorry," he ive me some rubber Johnnies, but I was too eotten my own I'm such an idiot"

"Rubber Johnnies?"

"That's what they call theh I couldn't help it I started to laugh harder and harder until tears spilled from my eyes

He lifted his head and smiled at me

"What?"

"Nothing," I said, sitting up and reaching for ain

He laughed, too, although he didn't know

why He thought I was just laughing at the funny name for a condom

I wasn't really laughing I was crying with a s love, I felt so lost

Until I kneho I was, until I stood up proudly and said h the ht, not the way all this should be felt

When I stopped laughing and just wiped tears from my cheeks, Randall stared at me, confused