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life.”
She laughs. God, I love her laugh.
I put my arm around her shoulder. “What were you like in high school? I mean like what all did you do?”
She tenses a little. “I was in dance for all of middle school and part of high school.”
“Why did you stop?”
She shakes her head. “It just got old. Don’t you ever get tired of football?”
“I guess. I mean, I love football, but some of the pressures that go with it get old.”
She nods. “So, what were you and Gabby so freaked out about today?”
    I shake my head. “Some assholes from home are coming up next weekend to watch me play. Well, some of them are assholes; some aren’t. But a guy that hurt Gabby is coming.”
She stops. “He hurt her? How? What do you mean?”
    I pull her close again and motion for us to keep walking. “It’s a long story, but it involves her having the hots for him for years, getting drunk, and having sex with him. Then he told the entire school, which turned into the entire town.”
“I understand. Nothing like everyone in town knowing your most private details.”
“Yeah, tell me about it.”
    We walk up the steps to her room. “So, are you sure you’re cool with us sharing a room? If I need to, I’ll go pick her ass up and put her in her own bed.”
She laughs. “No, just give me a minute to change. I’ve got to get these shoes off; they’re killing me.”
    I sit in the living room for a few minutes, until she walks out to the bathroom. “You can go in now. I’m gonna use the bathroom real quick.”
    I nod and walk into her room, stripping down to my boxers and lying down. She walks in the room and stops with her hands on her hips. “You’re in my bed.”
    “Sorry. This is just where I slept the other night. Why don’t you lay down with me and we’ll talk? Just talk. I promise. I like being close to you.”
    She looks at me with this cute ass naughty expression. “Okay, but you have to sleep in her bed. I don’t like to share.”
    I chuckle. “Good to know that you don’t like sharing.” She pops my arm. I put up my hands. “Sorry. Cute jammies by the way. Wish every girl was as badass as Betty Boop. I mean, damn. A cartoon stripper.”
She laughs. “I’m going to push you off this bed.” “Oh, really?”
    I roll on top of her, playing, but when she realizes she’s pinned, I can see the panic she’s trying to not show me. So I let her go. “Sorry, I get a little carried away rough- housing. Gabby and her sister Anna are used to it.”
“So you are used to holding girls down?”
    I pull her c lose to me. “I don’t have to hold girls down.” I touch the side of her face and we kiss like the world may end at any minute. We lie there kissing and talking until neither of us can hold our eyes open anymore falling asleep.
She wakes me in the morning by getting out of bed. She reaches back and kisses me.
I chuckle. “I guess you do share.”
    I pop her on the butt as she leaves and lie back, thinking that was the most fun PG13 night I’ve had since I was 13. I definitely hope to share a bed with her again soon.

Chapter 3
Present
Daria
    Sitting on the couch in this dingy cabin, I feel like the walls are closing in around me. I’ve been here for almost six months. Right after I was released from the hospital’s mental health ward, my father swooped in and brought me up here. I’ve missed so much. Gabby’s pregnancy. Her wedding. I know from the few pictures that Anna sent me that Gabby was beautiful and the guys were all so handsome. Especially Cade.
    I miss Cade every day. He’s mostly all I think about up here. I know I shouldn’t have kept so much of myself from him; he already has trust issues because of his dad. I just wasn’t ready. It hurts too much to relive that time in my life. When those guys came in the house, I just shut down. I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t move. I let Cade get hurt.
    I’m almost glad I didn’t have to face him at the hospital. I’m sure he checked on me because