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“You’re obsessed with this.”

“I’m observant.”

“You’re invasive.”

She shrugged. “Same thing.”

My phone buzzed again before I could respond.

Mason.

Mason:

You busy?

I stared at it longer than I meantto.

Then replied:

Rowan:

Always.

That was automatic.

Safe.

But it didn’t feel honest anymore.

MASON

I sat in my car outside the gym for ten minutes before turning the engine on.

Not because I was tired.

Because I didn’t want to go home yet.

Home meant silence.

And silence meant thinking.

Thinking meant everything I was avoiding.

My phone buzzed.

Rowan.

Rowan:

Always.

I stared at it.

Then typed:

Mason:

You ever get the feeling everything is about to change but nobody says it out loud?