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“I don’t know what I would of done if you were in Sam’s place,” he whispered, then taking his hand and brushing my bangs out of my eye.
I shivered from his touch even though his touch was warm, but his touch didn’t last long. He looked at me for the last time and went over the trailing down the ladder.
Coming from behind the vines, I went over to the railing and saw Liam getting in his car and driving away.
“That guy is something,” I mumbled before going inside closing the balcony door.
Sitting on the floor next to Sam, I put my head on the bed next to Sam. In minutes my eyes closed and was surround with complete darkness.
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My eyes fluttered opened, as the stupid alarm was screaming out it's annoying ring. This is the 4th time I woke up because of that thing!
i groaned picking myself up from the floor, not remembering how i got down there. Picking up the alarm clock on my side table. i slowly took out the batteries, throwing them underneath my bed.
Grabbing onto the edge of the bed I pulled myself up, looking at someone already in my bed. Then it all flew back at me like a rubber band.
Jumping up on my feet, I looked down at Sam who was still sleeping on my bed.
I let out a sigh of relief, as I sat down next to her.
Sam looked like an angel with her hair spread out around her head. Her face was slow going back to her regular color. The bandage that was on Sam’s eye has gone down meaning that the swelling on her eye has gone down too. The bandage that Liam had put there when I went to the bathroom was wrapped around her shoulder and down her arm.
I guess Liam didn’t want to take off Sam’s shirt to warp the dressing correctly
I smiled, from that thought
“You know if I didn’t know any better I would think that you were seriously thinking about raping me” Sam said not opening her eyes or should I say eye?
“How did you know I was sitting here?” i asked knowing that I didn’t even make a sound when I sat down next to her
She opened her good eye, “Call it my sixth sense,” she said with a smile
I shook my head, “It’s good to see you back to normal,”
“I wouldn’t call myself normal” she said trying to sit up
Grabbing onto her arm that wasn’t bandage down I pulled her up so she was leaning on the bedpost.
“What happened to you?” I asked whispering
“Honestly…I don’t have a clue. I feel as if I got hit by a car,” She said running her good hand through her hair
“Well you were sleeping in my hammock, when I got home from the Vaughn’s party. I didn’t know what to do, so when Liam called me from Jose’s phone I told him and he came as fast as he could.” I confessed
She sighed “Remind him if he tells anyone about me being vulnerable or weak that I will cut him into tiny pieces and feed him to my lion.”
“How did you get up to my hammock anyways?” I asked, playing with the hem of my tank top,
“I’m telling you I don’t remember anything. The only thing I remember is the look on your face, like I was going to die.” Sam chuckled “Come one I’m tougher than you give me credit for”
I chuckled, “true” I said getting up from the bed stretching
My back was hurting from sleeping on the ground, and my neck was stiff.
“You stay here and rest. I’m going to go take a shower,” I told her turning around gathering my things I needed
“Sure thing, but if I were you I would lock the door if you don’t want Aylin or she devil to find me.” Sam said
I nodded my head, picking out a shirt and some blue jeans then went to go lock the door like Sam said. Heading to the bathroom i looked over my shoulder at Sam who was poking at her bandage on her face, like it was the coolest thing in the world.
She’ll be fine in 3 days tops
I thought going to the bathroom to take a long nice shower.
After 30 minutes I came out feeling alive again. Throwing my towel on my chair I went to my bed to see what Sam was up to.
The only problem was that Sam wasn’t in my bed, or sitting on it or even jumping on it! Not that she could but you get what I’m saying. She wasn’t in my room, at all!
“Sam where are you?” I called out, looking under my bed thinking she probably rolled under it.
“Boo,” she said when I saw her face covered in dust
“How did you get under here?” I asked
“I was trying to move around that’s when I fell and thanks to my messed up knee I couldn’t stand up so I hid under here to scare you.” She said smiling
I rolled my eyes, and pulled her out from under my bed by her elbow
“Ow! Injured person here,” she exclaimed
“Your fault you fell from my bed,” I told her, she just shrugged the best she could, “I bet you opened your cut,”
“Nah my skins like leather, really hard to break” she said
“Not hard enough to get the cuts you did,” I mumbled helping her to my bed, but I ended up hurting her more as I tossed her on top of my unmade bed.
“You just want me to die don’t you” she groaned landing on her knee
I laughed, straightening her up so she was sitting up against my bed post again.
“Hey Russia, who’s jacket is that?” she said jerking her head towards the door
I looked towards the door and on the floor was Liam’s jacket
“Oh, that’s Liam I guess he left it here” I told her facing her again but this time she was smiling like a maniac
“Oh so you two were playing doctor with each other?” she said wiggling her eyebrows
I rolled my eyes “No we didn’t have time since we were trying to save you from dying” I told her
“Too bad I know how much you like to play,” she teased
I smacked her good arm, “Get your head out of the gutter you nasty.”
She just smiled,
I walked away to the door opening it,
“Where you going?” Sam asked curios
“To go get break feast, if you were nice to me I would of get you some too but I’m just not feeling it” I told her with an evil smile.
“You evil bi~” Sam started but I didn’t hear the end since I cut her off by closing the door and walking down stairs.
Humming down the stairs and to the kitchen I saw Sandra sitting on the table eating her cut apples and Aylin was eating an energy bar.
“Don’t you have school today, Aylin?” Sandra asked ignoring my presence
Crap I forgot about school!
“No, because of the earthquake it was closed. They need to make sure it’s safe for us to go back,” Aylin said taking a bite from her bar.
I let out a breath of relief, and took out 2 eggs and 4 pieces of bacon from the fridge.
“I’m going to go to the Vaughn house to talk to Lucas to see if he wants to hang out. Oh and help out, from the party last night. ” Aylin said
One of the eggs in my hand broke over the bowel from how tight I was holding to it.
“Shit,” I mumbled picking out the egg shells out of the bowel
“Who are the Vaughn’s?” Sandra asked with her mouth full. Disgusting.
“Well there’re two brothers Liam and Lucas Vaughn,” Aylin said
“Twins?” Sandra butted in
“Nope, Lucas is the older brother but he was held back a grade so he’s in our year. Liam is our age from the start; he’s the usual good boy. Good grades, good at sports, good with the ladies” Aylin continued
A hint of a smile came at my lips when she said that Liam was a good boy, and that Lucas was a bad boy type.
“But I’m more of Lucas’s type and Monica is more of Liam’s type.”
I held back a gag when I heard Monica’s name. I wonder how she looks with her messed up nose
“So who do the Vaughn boys live with?” Sandra asked curious
I quietly took out the frying pan setting it on the stove and turning it on. Waiting until it was warm enough I put in the bacon strips that were defrosted. Getting out another frying pan and putting it on the other burner, I stood over it and whisked the bowel of eggs in my hand. When the pan was heated up I poured the bowel of eggs in the pan watching it sizzling, and listened quietly to the mother daughter talking
“Well no one knows what happened to their parents all we know is that they live with their Uncle who is an officer.”
“Ah, a man in uniform” Sandra said
Flipping the bacon to its other side, I frowned Two faced bitch right here
“Mom, come on don’t dream about my future husband’s uncle that’s too weird” Aylin shrieked
I took out a plate from the cupboard, placing them on the counter trying so hard not to hurl one at Sandra or Aylin. Using the spatula I flipped the omelet, and with tongs I picked out the bacons putting them on the plate. Waiting for the omelet to cook, I kept on listening to them
“Hey I have an idea!” I heard Sandra say,
“To think she has a brain to come up with an idea!” I muttered under my breath, as I placed the omelet on the plate. After putting the dirty dishes in the sink, I took out 4 slices of bread and putting it in the 4 slotted toaster.
“Why don’t you invite them over here tomorrow for dinner? It’s a great way to get to know my future son-in-law” Sandra said,
Aylin giggled “I don’t think they’ll mind, I’ll ask them though” she said, Sandra squealed.
“Good God,” I said taking out the toasted bread, putting them next to the bacon. Before taking them upstairs I got out a tray and loaded the plate on it, with 2 glasses stacked on top of each other. Turning my back on my food I went to the fridge and got out the jug of orange juice. Going back to my food, I heard Aylin and Sandra discussing the food that will be at dinner tomorrow. Picking up the heavy tray with the orange juice jug and plate on it, i was about to escape the giggles and squealing of Aylin and Sandra but the she devil stopped me.
“Hold it, Alexandria” Sandra said dragging out my name
“What?” I said without looking at her
“I assume you heard us making plans for dinner tomorrow?” She asked
“Who could avoid your squealing and her giggling?”
Sandra ignored my insult, she said “You will cook the food, since you are the only one who can cook a decent meal.”
I scoffed, turning around seeing her and Aylin piercing their witch eyes at me, “I don’t intend to waste my time on helping Aylin impress the Vaughn’s.”
Sandra got up from her chair, “Fine,” she said waddling away.
I opened my mouth to argue with her but she didn’t even say a full sentence for me to say anything
Wait she took that nicely
“I guess I’ll have to tell you father that you broke his rule and snuck in that dirty rat.” She said walking away
Sam… how the hell did she find out!?
“Wait,” I said biting my lip from saying something other than wait that rhymes with witch.
Sandra stopped in her tracks and looked over her shoulder,
“I’ll do it, but I won’t let Aylin take the credit and I won’t be sitting with you at the table.” I told her my demands
“You really want your friend suffer don’t you?” she said
I growled in frustration “Fine, she can take credit of only 1 dish and I’ll sit only until I’m done”
“Fine, I’ll look up to that” Sandra said turning around and waddling away
Aylin got up and walked up to me and stood in front of me, “You better not poison us, with your crappy food” she said
I smiled “No I wouldn’t dare poisoning the other guest, I’ll just put it in your bitch food that you get from the store. Don’t get your dog food mixed up with my cooking Bitchlin.”
Aylin growled, and stepped around me walking away.
She is too easy to mess with
I thought to myself as I walked up the stairs and to my room.
I held the tray with my hip as I opened my door, “Here I brought you foo~” I started to say but was cut off when a flying battery came at me hitting my forehead. “What the hell!” I screamed closing my eyes trying to ignore the pain.
“Ha! You feeling it now?!” Sam yelled back at me,
I walked in my room closing the door with my foot, “I did bring you food you idiot!” I told her setting the tray on the bed
“You didn’t put anything to kill me right?” she asked peering over the omelet and bacon I cooked
“Why is everyone judging my cooking skills?” I mumbled sitting on the bed
Sam had already dug in, shoving the bacon strip in her mouth “This is good!” Sam said with her mouth full.
I rolled my eyes, “Don’t talk with your mouth full, and stop eating with your mouth opened!” I told her
Sam chewed on her bacon louder to annoy me, I threw my bacon strip at her but she only caught half of it with her mouth. Sam wiggled her eyebrows at me again,
“Show off,” I muttered picking up my other bacon strip eating it
“What took you so long?” Sam asked gulping down her bacon with orange juice she poured out herself
“I got held up by Sandra, she’s making me cook dinner tomorrow with the Vaughn’s” I told her after swallowing
“Why did you agree?” Sam said digging into the omelet now
I finished my bacon strip, “She found out about you, and threatened to tell Father”
Sam stopped eating, and set the piece of omelet she was going to eat back on the plate.
It got quiet for a while, but Sam broke the silence by saying “Take me to Jose’s,”
Thank god I wasn’t eating or drinking anything because I would’ve chocked
“What?”
“Take me to Jose’s” she said slower
“Come one Sam, don’t leave because Sandra blackmailed me” I told her, but Sam shook her head
“No I want to go. I just don’t want you to choose between what you want and me, I won’t have that” she said then continued eating
“So after I’m done eating I’m going to need to borrow some clothes and freshen up, then we’ll go to Jose’s. I don’t want to look like this so he can make fun of me,” she said
I gave her a small smile, but I really felt horrible that I’m letting her go because of Sandra. But quickly snapped out of it when Sam started to move in my side of the omelet.
“Hey, save some for me!” I yelled at her, but Sam kept on eating.
“Sam!” I said pushing her forehead back so she wouldn’t eat the last bite of the omelet I made.
“Ahhh….Urghhhh….ehhh” Sam said gurgling, pushing out her tongue licking the piece of omelet
“Ew Sam!” I said letting go of her forehead, scooting back a little bit.
Sam sat there drinking all of her o.j, wiping her mouth with the side of her hand.
“Now,” she said clapping her hands “Let’s see your closet,”
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Sam changed the radio station we were listening to.
“I love this song!” She said jumping up and down in the passenger seat, as much as she could
Just like Sam said after we ate and she freshened up we were leaving to go to Jose’s house. Getting out the house was no problem since Aylin was away and Sandra was in her room meditating.
“Come one, Mrs. Tre cool” I told her getting out of my bug.
Sam opened her door coming out holding the top of the car as she stood on one leg.
I went towards Sam putting and arm around her waist and putting her good arm around my shoulders.
We walked together to Jose’s door, waiting for him to open it after I rang the door bell with my foot.
“Where is that idiot?” Sam muttered, and right on cue Jose appeared at the door with only a pair of boxers and a thin white tee shirt.
“Yea?” Jose asked rubbing his eye, still not recognizing who it is but after a few seconds his lazy face was taken over by a face full of shock.
“What the hell happened to you?” he asked Sam, Sam opened her mouth but this time I beat her to it.
“Shut up and help me bring her in. I have to talk to you about something,” i told him
Jose nodded his head, motioning to carry her in
“No way in hell am I letting you carry me” Sam said limping back a couple of steps
“Listen you can hate me all you want but for right now your hurt and I can’t ignore that so shut your trap so I can help you!” Jose said gathering her up bridal style.
Walking ahead of Jose and Sam, I looked over my shoulder and asked him “Is your mom home? I want to see if she can take a look over Sam. To see if her wounds are healing right,”
“Yea, she’s in the den” Jose said walking ahead of me leading towards the den.
Mrs. Cruz was sitting on a single couch with a book and her daily coffee that she drinks. She was wearing glasses that were perched on the bridge of her nose. Her short brown hair was in a bob cut that came about her shoulders. Jose didn’t look much like his mom he looked more like his father, Kayla was the one that looked like her mom.
“Mom, we need your help” Jose said walking into the den with Sam in his arms and me trailing behind them
Mrs. Cruz looked up and saw Sam, and gasped “What happened to her?” she exclaimed setting her coffee down with her book. Getting up,
“She got hurt last night, and I found her in my hammock. She had some serious injuries but a friend of mine came by and fixed her up. But I think some her of cuts opened and I was afraid because she lot a lot of blood so I brought her here.” I explained, lacing my fingers together
“Why didn’t you take her to the hospital?” Mrs. Cruz asked coming closer to Sam
I looked down at my hands tangled up with each other, “It’s a personality matter,” I mumbled not wanting to tell her about Sam’s mother and how she would’ve beat up Sam even more if she even mentioned hospital.
Mrs. Cruz nodded, not pushing the question “Jose take her to the medical room” she instructed. And yes they have a medical room in there house.
Jose nodded his head and went towards the stairs. I followed him up the stairs and into a room that looked just like a doctor room with the bed and medical supplies.
Jose laid Sam down on the bed stepping back standing next to me, just as he did Mrs. Cruz came in with gloves in her hand slipping them on as she came to Sam.
“Yea I’m not a real fan of doctors, mostly because I never went to them” Sam said laughing nervously scooting herself upwards in a sitting position
“You have nothing to worry about dear, because I’m not a doctor I’m a nurse.” Mrs. Cruz said standing in front of Sam
“Yea beside what happened to your big bad side Sam?” Jose said smirking “Afraid of a little needle?” he cooed
“Go die in a corner” she snapped back at him squinting her eyed.
Jose rolled his eyes, and stayed quiet.
“Now, I’m going to have to take off all of these bandages to see how they are. So take off your shirt so I can properly take off that bandage that is on your neck.” She said
Sam lifted the hem of her shirt, “Wait, wait!! Let me get out first! I don’t want to be scared for life!” Jose screamed running for the door and closing it behind him.
“Did you drop him when he was a baby?” Sam asked Mrs. Cruz
“Blame his father, he dropped him on his 1st birthday. Head first,” Mrs. Cruz said
Sam laughed, “That explains a lot,” she said continuing to take off her shirt.
I knew what was under Sam’s shirt. All those scars and burn marks along her back and stomach, but she still took off her shirt not thinking twice.
Mrs. Cruz looked at Sam and saw her scars that was on her stomach. She opened her mouth to say something but closed it and looked away
“Alex dear can you get me a pair of scissors. It’s in that drawer,” Mrs. Cruz said pointing in another direction
I nodded getting the pair of scissors she asked for, and handing it to her.
She took the scissors and cut the bandage that Liam wrapped around her arm.
Cutting the entire bandage off, she tossed them on the ground
“Tilt your head to the left,” Mrs. Cruz told Sam
Sam followed instructions tilting her head. Mrs. Cruz took a look at the cut on the crook of her neck.
“Your one lucky girl, Sam.” She mumbled moving back going to the cabinet
“Why’s that?” I piped in
“Well usually when some gets the crook of their neck cut their whole arm becomes useless. In this case if Sam’s cut was about an inch deeper her whole right arm would have be non-functional.” She explained, going back to Sam with a plastic cup that was filled up with gauze, sterilizing wipes, a cream bottle, bandages, a needle and spool of thread.
She placed the cup next to Sam, then held the scissors in her hand again
“I’m going to take out the stitches now okay?” She asked Sam
Sam nodded, and closed her eyes
Mrs. Cruz began unstitching the gash. Sam’s face scrunched up every time Mrs. Cruz cut out a stitch.
“Is she going to be able to use her arm again?” I asked breaking the silence
“Yea, it’s going to take a while. I say about a month or 3 weeks,” She said finishing taking out the stitches
“Isn’t there some kind of pill I can take that will make it heal faster?” Sam asked opening her eyes
“None that I know of,” Mrs. Cruz stated exchanging the scissors for the sterilizing wipes. Opening the little package with her mouth, Sam closed her eye again knowing that its going to hurt.
“Did she have more than one injuries?” Mrs. Cruz asked
“Yea, her knee is messed up really bad.” I told her
“Hmm,” she said continuing with the process
I felt so useless, that I couldn’t do anything that could help Sam. I just stood there as she endured the pain as Mrs. Cruz wiped the cut clean with alcohol.
“Okay that parts over, now I’m going to put this cream around your wound so it’ll be numb. So that it won’t hurt as much when I stitch it up again.” Mrs. Cruz explained squeezing out a blue cream out from the bottle on to her fingers.
“Okay,” Sam said quietly bunching up her hand into a fist
Mrs. Cruz rubbed the cream around her shoulder, making sure that she got the whole thing cover. When she was done she dropped the tube of cream and picked up the needle and thread.
“Alex, can you go with Jose and get the crutches from the basement?” Mrs. Cruz asked
“Yea, sure thing” I told her moving to the door opening it, “I’ll be back okay Sam?”
“Yea,” she responded with her eyes still glued shut.
Stepping out of the room, I found Jose leaning on the wall with his head hung low and arms crossed. He changed into a brown Hollister shirt and some faded jeans.
Closing the door Jose looked up at me “How is she?” he asked
“She’ll survive,” I told him, putting my hands in my jacket’s pocket. “But right now we need to go get the crutches from the basement.” I told him
Jose nodded his head and pushed himself off the wall, and walking towards the stairs beside me.
“You should of called me when you found Sam,” he said
I rolled my eyes; they claim to hate each other when in reality they care about each other
“Well I really didn’t have a choice since you were puking your guts out and since you left your phone at Liam’s house last night.” I told him
“So that’s where I left it.” He mumbled “How do you that I left it there?”
“Liam called me, and he recognized that I was scared so he asked what happened. So I told him that Sam was in my hammock bleeding to death. He rushed over when I told him, and stitched Sam up the best he could”
Jose didn’t say anything the whole way down to the basement, and I didn’t really push on anything.
We got the crutches, and went back to the medical room. When the house phone rang,
“I’ll go get it,” Jose said jogging to get the phone from downstairs
Entering the medical room again, Sam had her shirt back on and was now lying down with her pant up all the way to her knee. That was wrapped up in a tan bandage that was pinned with a clip. Unlike her bandage that was wrapped around her shoulder, this one didn’t need to be changed everyday since its only there to keep it straight.
“I brought the crutches,” I said motioning them to both Sam and Mrs. Cruz
“Good, now listen Sam you have to use these for 2 weeks. You knee is healing, so you need to avoid the things that can hurt it.” She told Sam
“Wait, it’s not out place or anything?” I asked shocked on how quick it healed
“No, but it’s swelling a lot and she can’t bend it,”
When I saw it last night it was bruised and out of place. How could it heal so quickly?
Liam had that strange orange light coming from his palm…
My conscious reminded me, but that doesn’t explain how it healed.
“I’m going to prescribe some painkillers for you,” Mrs. Cruz told Sam.
Sam sat up rolling down her pant, “Sure thing”
Before Mrs. Cruz began to write down the medicine on the white piece of paper that was in a drawer, I stopped her
“Mrs. Cruz I was asking if you can write it on my name instead of hers,” I asked biting my lip
Mrs. Cruz looked up at me then at Sam who was looking another way. She put the paper on the counter, and crossed her arm over her chest the motherly kind of way
“Okay, tell me what’s going on? I didn’t push at the matter when you didn’t go to the hospital in a critical condition, nor the scars all over your body. Know you want to write down the medicine down on your name? Why? What’s going on?” She asked
“It’s nothing big it’s just for~” I started out looking for something to say but Sam cut me off
“My mom beats me, neglects me, and abuses me in any way she can.” Sam said bluntly “Most of the scars that are on my back and stomach are from her attacking me if I paid the bill late with my money or if someone calls at home and disturbs her from her Whiskey bottle. Sometimes she just feels like beating the crap out of me,” Sam said giving out a dry laugh
“Why didn’t you go to social services?” Mrs. Cruz asked
I scoffed, butting in “Just because Sam’s mother is a drunken monster, doesn’t mean she doesn’t have any friends. Last time Sam trusted a social service agent and told them what her mom is doing to her they said that they’ll check up on it. Little did she know that the person she talked to was her mother’s friend. She got beaten up so much that she almost died. Luckily I went there to check on her since she wasn’t at school, and found her outside in the mud with blood coming out of her head” I said shaking my head “I took her to Elena and she was the one who helped her.”
Thinking over about that one time, where Sam had a gash down her back and a broken nose. Elena already knew what was going on with Sam’s mother so she helped out without asking any question. That was one of the reasons why Sam liked Elena.
“So did your mother do this to you?” Mrs. Cruz asked taking a seat in those rolly chairs
Sam shook her head, “No. My mother wouldn’t give up a chance to kill her daughter,”
We sat there in complete silence, with our heads hung low.
Mrs. Cruz took a deep breath in, “You should stay here, until your better. I mean I know you can go to Alex’s house but I think its best if you stay here where there’s a person with medical experience.”
Sam looked up at Jose’s mom, studying her as if she was a book then gave her a real smile that she only gives to me or use to give to Elena.” Thank you so much, you don’t know how much this means to me.” Sam said
Jose’s mom smiled, “It’s the least I can do, and I trust that you won’t try any funny business with my son right?” Mrs. Cruz asked cocking an eyebrow.
I started to burst out laughing at the same time Sam did,
Mrs. Cruz was giving us a concern looked,
After sobering up I said, “The only thing you should worry about is to keep Sam and Jose away from each other before they kill each other.”
Just then Jose came barging in with his hair dripping wet,
“Speaking of the devil,” Sam said shaking her head
Jose opened her mouth to tell her off but closed his mouth looking at his mom, “I’m taking your car, I have to go to Liam’s house to go pick up my phone and to help clean up the mess from yesterdays party.”
His mom nodded his head, “Okay, but when you come back be a dear and pick up the medicine at the pharmacy for me?”
“Alright,” he said then looked at me “Oh yea Alex, Liam said that he can’t wait till tomorrow. Whatever that means,”
I didn’t get it at first then I remembered about the dinner Aylin and Sandra were planning. I blushed lowering my head, after I got a look from Sam that reads i-told-you-so.
“I’m out, see you later mom” Jose said sending an air kiss to his mom
“Ugh you use those to kiss your mom too? After all those girls you be making out wit at school,” Sam said shaking her head
Jose turned into a tomato, mumbling something on his way out
“You just had to have the last word didn’t you?” I asked Sam
“It makes the world seem in order agian,” She said then pointed at the crutches “Now give me those so I can go somewhere. I’m getting sick of this room.”
I smiled handing her the crutches, looking at her as she put them underneath her armpits. Trying to walk with them under her, but she wasn’t very well at learning new things. So after every step you would hear colorful words flying throughout the air.
Yup about a week or 3 days,
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i was hoping if you can give me some ideas about the food. I'll narrow it down to the top 3
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