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Chapter 10: Telling Deedah
TELLING DEEDAH
Four hours of punching keys and highlighting sentences later, Charlie is bored.
It's not like her life has been a bed of eventful events before. Heck, she just got dumped two weeks ago!
After mowing the lawn, dressing the veggie beds and eating a 'green-free' breakfast, Blurin heads upstairs to his room. Situations like this makes Charlie rethink her decision of giving the stranger is own room. Not because she's against it, but because of how bored she feels right now.
If it was the time he was still occupying her couch, she would have basked in the sounds of him flipping to the next page or him hitting his fingers unrhythmically against the hard back of most of the Paranormal books she owns.
Sighing, Charlie picks up her phone.
"Hey, Char-poo!" Dee's 'overly' high-pitched voice squeals through her speaker.
"Dee
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