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After lighting the candles, Aaron came to stand beside me. He was so quiet and scared the shit out of me.

‘’Why are you lighting candles? It’s still morning.’’

‘’Oh, I uh.’’

He laughed. ‘’You panicked.’’

‘’I guess I did.’’

‘’It’s fine, at least you know where things are in case of an emergency.’’

‘’Yeah, do you think our parents are ok?’’ I asked.

‘’I honestly don’t give a shit about Johnathan. He can drown for all I care.’’

I glanced over at Aaron and saw that he was now angry.

‘’I’m sorry if I upset you.’’

He shook his head, ‘’that’s not it.’’

He never told me the reason, but instead we sat in the tv room and watched movies. Turns out he was right, we do have much in common, because he chose action movies for us to watch.

‘’You said we have a lot in common, how do you know that?’’

‘’because of your locker and the things on your door.’’

I had to think long and hard about that.

‘’Oh, you mean the anime posters and those things.’’

‘’Yes, not often do you find girls who are into those t