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2020-06-25 00:27:43“What are you doing here?” Ivan asked.
“Scratch that, were you spying on me?” He rephrased his question.
“I—I—erm—Jade and I—we erm—” I stuttered sounding so foolish even to myself.
It's official I suck.
“Come on, get up” Ivan stretched out his hand to pull me up.
I untangled my hand from the tangled mess I and Jade were and stretched it out to Ivan who pulled me up.
These sparks I get whenever our skins touch keeps getting stronger everyday.
I turned to help Jade up but she was already standing and dusting herself while Ivan was checking my body for injuries.
“You injured yourself” he said, a frown etched on his face as he was looking at my left elbow which I grazed on the floor when Jade bumped into me.
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