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Then:
“Never mind.”
Which somehow made it worse anyway.
Mason
I should’ve stopped talking.
I didn’t.
“Don’t make it something it’s not,” I said.
Rowan tilted her head slightly. “What is it then?”
I paused.
That was the problem.
I didn’t have a clean answer.
So I didn’t give one.
Instead:
“It’s a room assignment.”
She laughed once.
Small.
Not amused.
“Yeah,” she said. “Sure.”
That tone again.
Like she didn’t believe me.
Or like she already knew I didn’t believe myself.
I looked away first this time.
Not because I wanted to.
Because I needed to.
Rowan
Silence came back.
But different now.
Not empty.
Full.
I sat on the edge of my bed.
