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.

back of my head reminding me that things can fall apart in a second. There is

still so much we haven't figured out, and plenty that could slip through the cracks. But for now, I push the thoughts down deep and let myself be in this moment.

hour out of the city when Zaid pulls off the freeway toward a gas

to get us home without driving into a

a face. "You're not that

belt and playfully punches Aiden on the

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guess

as I uncoil from him and

you," I tell

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

and we head toward the convenience

a few moments, just the sound of gravel crunching under our boots and the wind

trees.

and over-sweet candy, and the humming

me a headache just

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