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u/SebGreen

1:57PM • March 2

thing i wish i’d learned a long time ago: they treat you right in tahiti

wish all 70mil of you were here (jk don’t you dare show up, it’ll scare the fish)

love,

seb

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5

The ski school is housed in a modern log cabin that sits at the edge of the village, an A-frame lit from within by warm, glowing light. I arrive with two minutes to spare and check my reflection in one of its massive front windows—not bad. I rest my skis against the building and take a quick second to tuck some flyaways back into my braids.

“It’ll only get worse on the mountain,” someone says behind me. I whip around so fast both of my skis clatter to the ground.

“Holy—Tyler. You shouldn’t sneak up on a girl like that!”

He laughs. “I thought you saw me in the reflection.”

“Clearly I did not.”

“Clearly,” he agrees. “Ready for your lesson?”

“Don’t I look ready?”

He eyes my skis, still lying haphazardly on the ground like soldiers wounded in battle.

“Oh, yeah. Totally.”

He leans down to rescue my skis at the exact same time I do, nearly giving me a concussion before I’m even out on the slopes.

Only now do I realize my helmet is still in the closet.

Tyler notices, too. “Daredevil or just forgetful?”

“Neither, normally. Any chance you have extras?”

“Thereisa chance,” he says. “But unless you wear the same size as a six-year-old, you’re gonna have to just take mine.”

My cheeks heat up despite the chilly breeze. “Oh, I can just run back over to my place—or go to the village—”

“We’d only get twenty minutes in, at most,” he replies. “I’ve got another lesson at three.”

“What willyouwear?”

“An abundance of confidence in my ability not to need a helmet?” he says, and I laugh.

I can’t quite tell if he’s serious.

A moment later, though, he’s holding his one and only mint-green helmet out to me. Now that his shoulder-length waves are no longer confined beneath it, his hair is unruly, but it smellsverygood—an unexpected and rather pleasant hint of floral shampoo.

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