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"Hey" He lifts his hand and slides his fingers softly across my forehead as his eyes follow the path of his touch

"Hey," I reply softly, studying hiry anyback, his hand drops to rest on the bed near aze once more

"I didn’t know about your parents I’ insensitive," I whisper, and his face softens

"You weren’t being insensitive You didn’t know, and I don’t talk about the the inside of my cheek

"Will you tell me about them?" I question delicately when he doesn’t say more His face softens further, and he kicks off his shoes and cli me into his side

"My moms name was Lacey and my dad was Paul, they met at summer camp when my mom was fourteen and my dad was sixteen They disliked each other fro, happy, and the center of attention, while htly antisocial" I hear the s they sound a lot like us "Both their parents sent them back to the same camp every surew a little more"

"And then they fell in love?" I tilt my head back and look at hiot too old for suot about each other"

"Oh," I ive me a squeeze and I hear him chuckle before his lips touch the top of my head

"When ain at a party Myto Harvard, when they ran into each other Mole, pressing ining it looked a lot like Dillon’s "My dad hadn’t changed at all He was pissed and demanded my mom pay for his shirt to be dry-cleaned"

"Did she tell hi his hand over the top of o over ith my dad He left the party and went back to his dorm The next day, he took his shirt to the dry-cleaners then tracked down my mom’s address and sent her the bill"

"Oh, Lord, I see where you get your personality fro his chest shake under ot the bill in theht in the ave in and told her just to leave, that he didn’t want her o back to her school right away Instead, she went to the dry-cleaners and picked up his shirt"

"Yourhis fingers through et his shirt, he found out it had already been picked up, and he kneas her He thought she was insane"

"But he liked her, didn’t he?"

"He didn’t kno he felt about her until the fall, when raduated from Wellesley and started at Harvard Law School, and they ran into each other again My dad sworewithin her power to annoy his to get his attention or bug him"