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Finality

Author: Arden River
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-29 22:05:25

"Your mom passed away, you nearly slept with a guy but stopped yourself multiple times, found out your life’s in danger, and then ran off with a man?

And he just so happens to also be your baby daddy? Girl, your life is a whole soap opera,” Alex said, pacing back and forth across the room like she was trying to burn off the secondhand stress.

She was my best friend, my ride-or-die, and honestly, the only person I trusted to hear all this madness.

“And,” I added quietly, my voice barely above a whisper, “he doesn’t know about the baby daddy thing.”

Alex froze mid-step, one foot still in the air, before slowly turning to look at me, her eyes wide as saucers. “Wait—what?” she practically screeched.

“And then you stayed up all night with him? And now you’re, what, working on getting into a relationship with him? when are you going to tell him?”

She threw her hands up in the air dramatically, like the absurdity of my life was physically too much for her to handle.

I wasnt sure on when i wa
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