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Chapter fourteen - Cleo
Luke gets up and answers the door. A girl's voice floats through to us, then footsteps run upstairs and Luke reappears, sitting down beside me and spinning the bottle like nothing has happened.
No one looks at all surprised by this even though we can still hear footsteps above our heads.
He's tense beside me and I'm trying to work out what's going on with him, but he keeps avoiding eye contact. Focusing on whoever is telling their story, with much more interest than he was paying before the interruption. Eventually I give up wondering, figuring I'll ask him when we're on our own.
That's if we're going to, now that he has company? I'll probably end up going home instead.
The realisation make me put the beer down that
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