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Jesus, she was loving this Why did woot all sappy and poured your frigging heart out to theht, this all happened near the end of yourlast year of high school, right?"

I nodded "Two raduation"

"God, that’s so awful How did youI can’t even iraduate after that How you moved on at all"

I shook h school I just know I passed It was uess I looked at it as a clean slate, as if I hadn’t existed until thatI was just lanced at her

She nodded, see up her brother I sed "Well, he probably helpedwhat he was doing We were assigned as roo with hi thistearinned "It was easy not to tell him shit aboutso far into the future when he came to ESU, it was as if he never had a past Like no one had ever had a past So, shit, I don’t know It was easy to forget anything that had happened to e, too We just lived for the present and the future I knew about you and your brothers because he would call houred you were all really young or soht about it He didn’t voice any concerns to me, so I didn’t worry about you either And he never worried about any of my shit I’d pushed out of my head, soit just worked for us"

With a sed me "I understand why he had to leave Colton and Brandt and me for a while, then He had to be here for you"

I stared at her, realizing shit, she’d had to suffer so I could find a way to heal That sucked ass But in a way, I was kind of glad it’d worked out this way Her suffering had brought her here, tosmell that was purely my woman Then I cupped her face inus here to this o down the way it did, but I’ether on this roof The pain orth it if it’s what brought you to me"

Caroline sucked in a shuddery breath before , "Oren?"

"Hrateful I had her

"Your hour session’s over"