Page 150 of The First Time

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Piper: Exhausted but good.

Kit: You and Mal good?

Piper: Yeah. Why are you up this early?

Kit: At the gym.

Piper: No wonder you're as hot as you are.

Kit: You alone?

Piper: No. With Violet. She and Ethan just got home.

Kit: Good. Hang out with Violet. I know you adore her.

Piper: I don't adore her.

Kit: You do. It's cute. Have fun. I'll call you tonight.

Piper: Will it be a sexy call?

Kit: If you want.

Piper: Really?

Kit: Yeah, but I'd rather have you in person.

Piper: Oh.

Kit: Oh?

Piper: I mean, yes please.

Kit: That's better. I'll call you tonight. Go have fun with Violet.

I smile as I set my phone on the dresser. Kit's checking in. And flirting.

Everything is still good.

"Piper." Violet sets her eye pencil down and moves on to testing lipsticks on her thumb. "Your prom pictures?"

"Oh. Right. I—"

"Got distracted chatting with someone?"

I admit nothing. I simply find my prom pictures and show them to Violet. I keep my cell in my hands, my fingers on the controls.

She smiles knowingly. "Cute dress. And cute date."

"He was quite the gentleman."

"Oh?" She raises a brow.

I clear my throat. "A lot of eyeliner, huh?"

"A little." She decides on a red shade of lipstick and applies it carefully. "You still look pretty. I wish I'd been there."

"Me too. If you'd been there, my friends wouldn't have spent the next year trying to get Ethan's number."

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