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It was so different frorown up in, from my aunt’s modest two-bedroom apartment on the other side of town

But now, it was like a second home to me, and I didn’t pause to marvel at its beauty at all

I leapt off the old heap of baby bluetoward the house before it even hit the grass The sun was setting over the lake, the last rays of light slipping through the lian’s drive I blew past theht up the stairs that led to the front porch, and flew through the front door within my ears

I an’s estate aped at me Harry was in his sixties, with creamy white skin, a bald head covered in sun spots, and the kindest sea foareen eyes I’d ever known His white, caterpillar eyebrows bent over those eyes as he took in the state of me

“Ms Jasht?”

Tears blurredpast him and up the half-spiral staircase to the second floor That’s where Morgan’s bedroo to knock before I thrust the door open

Her rooinable, with a canopy four-post bed, a cozy fireplace, more pillows than anyone could ever use, and pictures of us fro every wall

And it was empty

My chest squeezed, and I turned, ready to run back down to see if she was in the kitchen

Instead, I ran straight into her brother’s bare chest

“Whoa,” Tyler said, catching ht before I had the chance to bounce backward “I thought we decided you and high speeds don’t mix well, Jazzy”

He chuckled, but when I lifted hter left his eyes in an instant

Tyler Wagner was ht, and extraordinary in every other aspect He ht as well have walked out of a Hollister ad, with the way his sandy brown hair fell in his eyes just right before he swept it away, and the way his abs rippled like mountains and valleys down his abdoh it was only June and suht cleft in his chin, one that I always teased hi it was his superhero chin

Only eleven months older than my best friend, I considered hiether, and always had We echester Prep before Tyler graduated We ate lunch as a crew, hung out after school, lost countless weekends together and never spent ht as well have been a part of that fa e first met