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Adrian POV

“Pokemon Go? Are you serious?” Missy asks after hearing my story about why I kept rejecting her calls.

“I swear. You can go by the farmer’s market today and see the booth if you don’t believe me. Here,” I pull out my phone, showing her the new app on it Hailey made me download. “I don’t know how, but I’m sure there is a way to see when it was downloaded and how long she was playing it yesterday.”

She looks at my phone in my outstretched hand speculatively, like she still isn’t sure if she believes me.

“I’m telling the truth, Missy.”

“Hmm,” is all she says in response.

Hmm? What does hmm mean? This is stupidly frustrating.

Earlier, when she first got out of the shower and allowed for me to hold her while we had our moment, I thought I had broken through to her, and she was letting me in her defenses.

After several minutes, though, she kicked me out of her room and said to wait in the living room while she got dressed and we could talk after. Those defenses went right bac