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2024-10-29 19:42:56Bella stands there in the bathroom, with her shirt half on her head as she listens to the talk in the bedroom. She did not hear all of the conversation, just bits and pieces of it as she was brushing the tangles out of her hair.
She heard Chad saying that he wanted to marry her and Adam saying that he could not. She had also heard the whole exchange when Chad said that he did not want to lose her and Adam had said those words. The words that had sent the butterflies in her belly to dancing a jig.
Me neither.
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