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Chapter 64

Author: TalesbyZ
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Lisa’s POV

Riley came home with two large brown paper bags of Chinese takeout and a smile so wide I could already tell she was up to something.

“Guess what,” she said, dropping the bags on the kitchen counter with a loud thud.

I peeked inside. The smell of fried rice and chicken hit me at once. “You ordered takeout?”

“Correction,” she said, wagging a finger, “I ordered enough takeout to feed a small village.” She opened the second bag and pulled out a bottle of cheap wine. “And we’re having a girls’ night.”

I blinked at her. “A girls’ night?”

Riley declared it with the seriousness of a general planning a siege. "We are having a girls' night. No arguments. You have been moping for weeks. It stops tonight."

I looked up from my laptop, where I had been staring at the same search results for my mother for an hour. "I'm not moping. I'm researching."

"That's a fancy word for moping while staring at a screen," she said, grabbing the computer and closing it. "Nope. Tonight, we eat terrible fo
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