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I shrug “Everyone’s got their kinks I don’t judge”

“Well, no,” Harper says, giving me a suspicious look “Not a dinosaur stripper”

“That’s okay A hu foolishly “Harper, did you get me a cowboy? Ooh, yes, yee my haw!”

“We really, really have to have a chat so still “I mean it’s not a stripper at all It’s”

She pulls open the door and shouts, “SURPRISE!”

It’sElle!

“Oh, my God! Tiffany!”

I’ across the roo like a whole basket of baby hamsters “OMG! Elle!”

We half-tackle, half-hug, half-dance with each other, crying and choking each other with her ar as she watches us, and we pull her into our hug too

When I can speak again, I step back, sniffling “What are you doing here?” I lean back, holding her arms in my hands to scan her face “Are you real?”

When she doesn’t immediately reply, I pinch her arm and she squeaks in e and feels like ho Sosurprise!”

I tap-dance sto that she’s really here in the flesh Over Elle’s shoulder, I ask Harper, “How did you keep this a secret? Elle, I believe She’s sneaky like that when she needs to be, but you? I wouldn’t have thought you’d have a sche bone in your body!”

“I don’t,” she says with a giggle “But Ace happens to take after his sister And he only cao”

“Luckily for you, Colton has the right ht across the pond”

“Well, don’t you sound posh and bougie as hell, bitch?” I tease, pushing her back playfully, thankful that not only does she have resources like that at her disposal now, but she’s not afraid to use them “You better have flown first-class!”

“Of course” Once upon a time, insistent that she only enjoy what she earned herself, she would’ve flown coach on a co into the tiny seat for eight hours and not bitching at all despite the fucked up neck she’d inevitably get