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121: Graduating (I)
Three weeks later…
"How do I look?" Ayla stared back at her own reflection as she tried to fix her hair.
"Gorgeous as always."
She frowned at the halfhearted reply, and looked a little further to her right into the mirror. Her eyes came to rest on Claude's figure as he was lying in a half resting, half sitting position.
"The orange for sure brings out my eyes, no?" She added while keeping her eyes glued to his reflection, crossing her arms across her chest.
"Yep." He popped out, his fingers never stopping once as they clicked away the keys of his laptop.
"I should definitely wear it more often." She continued on, her eyes narrowing ever so slightly. "And the neon green heels go along with it so well."
"Yes, yes, and definitely." Claude hummed out a reply without tearing his gaze away from his laptop's
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