Letting My Brother's Best Friend Take My V-Card

I blinked, sitting up. "What's going on? I just woke up."

She flinched, pushing open the curtains to let in the bright morning light, and sat on the bed. "How's baby this morning?" She asked and I smiled down at my belly. "Growing like a gremlin." She nodded and took my hand, a tear falling down her cheek.

I prepared myself for the worst...

"There's news. Honey - they found a part of the aircraft. Some

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cargo ship en route to Australia found it."

"What do you mean?" My stomach dropped as the words settled in, each one like a cold weight.

States, and they need us to - we need to identify them." She swallowed,

emotions swirled through me, but I could barely feel them. It was like my body was working overtime, just trying to process this information and make

voice was a tremor

much. Just that we need to talk to someone in person, and they're asking for us to come as soon as

up, blinking a few times to escape the fog. "Australia? They weren't anywhere close to

part didn't want to go. I wanted to call my other and ask her

don't get to outrun this because it's

- fully aware that I must return

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the city, the people - but these people, especially Marcelo, have learned to live with their grief. Even Laura has more light by the day in her,

1. me.