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She started walking backward, but her eyes stayed steady on his. "I'll see you this weekend then."

Chandler didn't move until she was inside the car, and he watched her drive off. He glanced at his watch, then he grinned. Hopefully, she didn't kill him when she realized that they wouldn't be able to come home that same night, but he wasn't stupid. If this was going to be the most honest time he'd get with her... then he'd be an idiot not to take it.

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For the seventeenth time that evening, Elena rolled her eyes as she glanced at her reflection in the mirror.

"You don't happen to know his social, do you?" Beth asked her,

She answered with the same level of patience that she had her previous sixteen questions about Chandler. "No, Beth, I don't."

Whatever Beth saw on her phone screen made her bring it up closer to her face. Lexi peeked over her shoulder and hummed appreciatively while Emily glared at her. "Ewww. That's your boyfriend's brother, Lexi," she told her.

Lexi shrugg