The plane landed the next evening.
Jake dropped me off.
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12:13
“Always beside you.”
It matched Jake’s caption.
The comments were all the same.
~ 814
[Are they dating?]
[Jake hasn’t had a girlfriend. Is he dating Lily?]
[Cute couple!]
Lily didn’t say anything and pinned a comment:
“I took them. Someone else took awful pictures,
and posted them.”
Then I got a call.
It was Jake. “Wanna go out tomorrow?”
“Nah, I have tests,” I said.
He stayed quiet.
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He was out hiking.
I opened his voice message.
“It was so crowded on the mountain, some guy
stepped on my foot, I had to take the gondola. It was pretty, we can go together.”
Me: “Okay, good pictures.”
I did two tests.
Then I opened my phone.
Jake hadn’t replied.
I played the message twice.
I messaged: “How’s your foot?”
He replied right away.
A little sore 1
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12:13
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put the phone down, tired.
Dating was harder than tests.
Jake was harder than the tests.
He wanted too much attention.
Luckily the break was almost over.
