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Ruled by your mind, Nell Focus

I leave to retrieve the medicine and some water On my way to the kitchen, Dylan catches me, "Is he okay?"

"Hmm?" Crap What do I tell her? "Oh yeah He’s just tired fro "Well, I know you toldeach other"

There Neither of us has really talked yet about telling other people that we’re sleeping together We’re both so busy with my classes and his football stuff that we didn’t want to have to split our li questions about ourselves But this is the only explanation, besides the truth, that I have for why he’d show up here and want to go straight tohours cooped up inus

"That little bugger, he pulled it off"

"What?"

"He asked me about you Wanted to kno to talk to you I honestly didn’t think he had a chance, or that he was serious enough to wear you down, but he did it"

Oh, he was plenty good at wearing me down

She asks, "And you like hi her onto the couch and spill everything I’, to ask her what love feels like, just so I’ll know that what I’ isn’t it And if it isdamn it, now is not the time

"Yeah I like hi, can we talk about this later?"

She givesof a very different soht help hio over to Silas’s Spend the night there"

I’m stunned for a moment at how supportive she is of all this Froured she would think I was crazy That was a big part of why I hadn’t told her before even though I was dying to talk to sous the apartlass of water in hand, Ito stay awake I close the door behind me and move to his side

"Hey" His smile is sleepy and soft, and it ht want to be ruled by my mind, but there’s a fist around le to beat against it, to beat against how terrifying it is to want a person thiswith the water He pops the aspirin into his h to s a mouthful of water

Then I reach down to pull off his sneakers They’re longer than the length of er when I place them on the floor beside ravelly voice

"Do you want to be under the covers?" I ask

"Depends Will you be under there, too?"