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Amara.

Author: Michael
last update publish date: 2026-07-16 17:15:00

Cheryl pov.

Amara was at the coffee shop when I got there, two drinks on the table, one of them mine because she ordered it the exact same way she did every morning since freshman year without needing to ask.

"Sit," she said, before I pulled the chair out. "Talk. Fast. I've been up since six imagining scenarios and none of them were boring enough."

I told her everything. The equipment room, the bench by the vending machines, his father, my apartment, all of it, and watched her expression move t
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