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Chapter 23
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2026-05-26 01:11:00Two hours later, slightly delirious from Kate’s music, we arrived at the lake house.
She was clearly having the time of her life in a parallel universe where she sang on stage while the guitarist smiled at her every ten seconds. I knew this because she narrated it out loud, choreography included. Neither Jacob nor I had the heart to tell her she was off-key and that her music had already made us dizzy. We unloaded the cars and began organizing inside. The three
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The landing was so gentle that I barely felt it.The basket brushed against the grass before settling into the meadow with an almost unreal softness, as though the air itself was reluctant to let us go. When the balloon finally came to rest among the open fields, a knot tightened in my throat. I didn’t want that suspended moment to end. I wasn’t ready to come all the way back down to earth.Jacob helped me climb out of the basket, and when his hands brushed mine, the world seemed to pause for a heartbeat. Neither of us said anything. We didn’t need to. The silence between us still carried something new and fragile, as though we were both afraid that the wrong word might break it.The sky above us was impossibly clear, a shade of blue so pure it almost hurt to look at. For a moment, I found myself thinking that it belonged to the same secret language as Jacob’s eyes.Neither of
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