Chapter 162

You're So Easy-1

We leave a couple of days later.

The ride home feels different from when we came. It's less tense, the four of us exhausted from how much we played and slept together. I'm sore everywhere, but I wouldn't change the last week for anything.

Things feel lighter somehow. It's almost as if we're not carrying as much weight as

we

used to.

I'm curled up in the backseat, one leg draped over Jake's lap, my head resting against the car door. Aiden is in the passenger seat again because of his long legs, and Zaid drives.

Jake's fingers trace lazy circles on my calf and I breathe deeply, enjoying his touch.

It's easy. It's peaceful.

For the first time in too long, I feel good. Like we're finally on the same page. Like we aren't just circling the same old arguments, too scared to figure out what we want. We're figuring it out now.

We're better.

there's this quiet whisper in the back of my head reminding me that things can fall apart in a second. There is still tension between

push the thoughts down deep and let myself be in this moment. We can celebrate the small

the city when Zaid pulls off the freeway

caffeine if I'm going to get us home without driving into

face. "You're not

unbuckles his belt and playfully punches Aiden on the

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head. "I guess I'll fill

chuckles under his breath as I uncoil

I tell Zaid, opening my

is crisp when I step out, but Zaid's already

slip between mine and we head toward

few moments, just the sound of gravel crunching

trees.

burnt coffee and over-sweet candy, and the

a headache just by looking

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