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CHARLOTTE

No matter what I did, my mind always wandered to the picture of Thiago and me. I couldn’t place the feeling I had upon seeing it, but I knew that the night he had taken me home, I saw him take out his phone to do something.

I had been drunk from the party and thought it was just a fuzzy memory at the time, but the more I thought about it, the clearer it became. Thiago had taken a picture of me, and then he had taken another of both of us.

I could bet that in both pictures, I had been too inebriated to stop him.

That was in the past now. The question that lodged itself at the back of my mind was, why?

I desperately wanted to confront him about it, but I knew it was neither the time nor the place to do so. There were more pressing issues at hand, and I needed to attend to those first.

We had gone through the gifts that had been sent earlier, and just when we thought it was over and things had quieted down, more gifts poured in.

It irritated me as much as it fascinated me. I ha
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