Morning

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With a bag in each hand, I paused for a moment outside the van, staring at him. "Well, it was a helluva night," I said finally.

"Come here," he said, and I took a step forward. He hugged me, and the bags made it hard to hug him back, but if I dropped them I might wake someone. I could feel him on his tiptoes and then his mouth was right up against my ear and he said, very clearly, "I. Will. Miss. Hanging. Out. With. You."

"You don't have to," I answered aloud. I tried to hide my disappointed. "If you don't like them anymore," I said, "just hang out with me. My friends are actually, like, okay." His lips were so close to me that I could feel him smile. "I'm afraid it's not possible," he whispered. He let go then, but kept looking at me, taking step after step backward. He raised his eyebrows finally, and smiled, and I believed the smile. I watched him climb up a tree and then lift himself onto the roof outside of his second-floor bedroom window. He jimmied his window open and crawled inside.

I walked through my unlocked front door, tiptoed through the kitchen to my bedroom, peeled off my skinny jeans, threw them into a corner of closet back near the window screen, downloaded the pictures of Ken, and got into bed, my mind booming with the things I would say to him at school.

A/N

First chapter ( and first story ), hoped you guys enjoyed it. ( If anyone's reading this) Also this story is based on the book Paper Towns

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