28.
“So how far is your here, round trip?”
“Hmm… a little over six miles I think Ronnie said one time. I dunno, I just keep track of certain landmarks and before I know it, I’m at work,” she shrugged again.

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27.
I jogged after, pulling mine out with a wince as the din of over thirteen thousand concert goers assaulted my ears; the intensifying as they always did with the raucous noise.

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26.
“Do you ‘read’?” he pulled me closer by my dark blue robe cords, making the bells attached to the ends He’d loved that, soon as he saw them. Said I should wear them all the time so he could keep track of what I got up to.

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25.
I tried to sit up, but she firmly pushed my shoulders down, felt my forehead again with the back of her hand before frowning and striding back out into the hall. She returned with a cool compress and a glass of orange from my fridge.

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24.
“I’ll still let you wrap your lips around this though, Honey. Anytime you’d like to taste something that’s been on stage,” Josh thrust his hips forward and cupped his

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23.
I crossed my arms stubbornly and glanced back behind me as the airport’s automatic doors hissed closed. “Rude, unfeeling I muttered under my breath as he guided me over to mom’s car.

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22.
Jared laughed, and pressed my foot back down to the sand, unfastening the strap slightly and moving it up to just below my knee. “Gonna give you a big if you fall off and the wave takes your board… leg might fall off too,” he teased.

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20. No 'jinx'
21. "Your uncle and I never liked him much, but your mom did. Caused a big rift in our little group. I reckon that's why she stopped talking to he said with a frown of his own, "Not even sure why he was in town, to be honest."

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19.
“Here,” Casper took the from me & sparked it up, taking a slow drag before he offered it back. “Just like that,” his voice was tight as he held his hit a moment longer before tilting his head up to exhale away from our faces.

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16.
“She’ll do it if u ask her, Favorite Child Not of Her Womb,” Tess teased as he pulled his jean on & patted his pockets for his keys. “She caves, get enough for us all or we’ll be trolling for a cheap place to eat. You remember what happened last time.”

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15.
She gave me a warm smile as if this news should make my day. I’d never had a in my whole life. My parents had wanted me to focus on school 1st, dancing was a distant 2nd, and working wasn’t even mentioned. If I had my voice, I would have told her as much!

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13. "Jelly" see Day 1

14.
“Now then. What’s your deal?” she smiled at me, “#Junior? Sophomore?”
Freshman who’d like to kick you in the ass with one of these pointy shoes I’m wearing?
“Jess is a Freshman,” Casper supplied, “Her older brother is our band’s singer.”

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10.
Well, hi there, hottie. I grinned as her breathless and somewhat embarrassed expression met mine seconds before she closer at the first squeak-bang of the firework unleashing a near two-story fountain of sparks and whirly-gigs into the night sky.

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9.
So, knowing his home life, I gave him a pass on the constant crankiness. Who was I to My family wasn’t exactly the Cleavers. I admire his tenacity though; the guy doesn’t give up and he takes a long-ass time to make his mind up about… well, everything.

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6.
This was the fourth storm we’d had since I arrived and I still felt I’d never get enough of how vastly different something as ordinary as rain could be if you changed the setting.

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5.
I even nearly made a about it, but quickly thought better of it, seeing as she wasn’t exactly smiling. Add in that she’d been staying at least 3 paces behind me; stopping whenever I did, & we weren’t exactly making much headway into conversation territory.

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