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Tess: Hey. Let’s get one thing straight: I banged YOU, okay?

Drew: UM, THAT SOUNDS EVEN WORSE.

CHAPTERTWENTY-EIGHT

A MORNING TEXT DOESN’T JUST MEAN “GOOD MORNING.” IT ALSO MEANS, “I THOUGHT ABOUT YOU WHEN I WOKE UP.”

Drew: Good morning…

Tess: Oh, hello. Good morning to YOU!

Drew: You’re up early. Do you usually get up at 7?

Tess: Um no, but my phone was vibrating, and I was curious to see who was texting me at 7 IN THE MORNING.

Drew: What time is your first class?

Tess: 8

Drew: See, you would have been awake soon anyway…

Tess: True…

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Sixteen hours later.

Drew: Back from my night class. What are y’all up to?

Tess: Getting unpacked from being gone. My roommate is grocery shopping. She went home for break, too.

Drew: It’s weird knowing you have roommates, and shit I haven’t met yet.

Tess: Yes LOL this whole life at school the same way you do. So crazy.

Drew: That’s not what I mean. A part of me has to constantly remind myself that you’re Grady’s sister, while the other part of me likes learning all the shit about you I hadn’t known before.

Tess: Well, that’s kind of sweet

Drew: Is it?

Tess: I said ‘kind of’ LOL

Drew: Brat

Tess: I am a brat, yes. Thanks for noticing.

Drew: So you’re unpacking—at ten o’clock.

Tess: I felt lazy when I got back and ended up on the couch scrolling and watching TV, and now I want to go to bed, but I have a pile on my bed and have to put everything away.

Drew: You’re not the “sweep it onto the floor and forget about it” kind of person?

Tess: Omg, no. Grady is like that, and it used to drive me nuts. Remember how we had to share a room until we were in like, middle school?

Drew: Yeah, I remember that.

Tess: He was such a slob it turned me into a neat freak, so here I am at 10:00 putting shit away. What are YOU up to right now?

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