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Chapter 17: Pouting in a Pizza Place
POUTING IN A PIZZA PLACE
Charlie has been busying herself with trimming her vegetable beds since midmorning.
The sun was barely up when she wore her rubber gloves and picked up her tools from the side of the house. Nora's apartment has its light on and Charlie could see indistinct movement here and there.
She cut the weeds rather viciously. The loud giggles and boisterous laugh still lingers in her mind and that is what fueled her to snap the necks of a few stems.
Charlie avoided Tristan the whole of yesterday till the present morning. He'd left a few minutes after Blurin had come down for breakfast. Ha, Breakfast. It was an awkward affair. For the first time—since living with Charlie—Tristan was on his phone on the dining table chuckling softly then coughing afterward.
'He's probably sharing dog memes with Theresa,' Charlie couldn't keep the saltiness off her thoughts.
Sighing loud
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