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Author: Zoë Grace
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-16 09:54:53

☆☆SUMMER'S POV☆☆

“We’re staying,” I announced.

Jake smiled through his teeth, eyes fixed on Hayden the entire time. I wondered why. I honestly didn’t want to stay. My boyfriend had just had an episode, and now my best friend had a broken arm. I was going to move my things to Hayden’s to stay the weekend, but now we all had to move to Tara’s.

“The doctor said I'm free to go,” Jake said.

The doctor arrived shortly and everything was arranged for Jake to leave. There wasn’t much. He prescribed some pain relief medication. Then we left the hospital.

I was still mad at Jake for watching Hayden and me while we had sex. But I couldn’t abandon him now that he needed us the most. He sat in the back seat of Hayden’s car, and I carefully buckled him in.

“Thanks, bestie,” he said.

“Sure thing.”

I sat in the passenger’s seat of the car. Hayden said we’d stop by the dorm first. We did. As soon as Hayden parked in the parking lot, I unbuckled my seatbelt.

“I’ll go in alone,” I told him.

“Why?”

“Reme
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