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Author: Zee Wesley
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CALANTHA

TWO HOURS LATER

As Lysandra animatedly recounted a childhood memory about Kaiden, I found myself grinning ear to ear, completely drawn in.

“And then, you know what I said to him?” she continued, her eyes glinting with mischief. “I told him, ‘You’re as cold as a fish straight out of the ocean. We should stop being friends.’”

I let out a chuckle. “And what did he say after that?”

We were finishing up collecting trash, making our way toward the dumpster truck with Eloise and Nyx trailing behind us.

Lysandra smiled as she reminisced. “He pulled me into this hug… so tight I thought he’d squeeze the life out of me. Then he said that from that moment on, he would never be cold toward me again… and that I would be the only one who gets to see his warm side.”

“That’s… actually really sweet,” I admitted, laughing lightly. But deep down, a feeling of slight jealousy burned in my heart, no matter how hard I tried to stop it.

I knew I had no reason to feel this way. I had only jus
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