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is

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his fitted t-shirt sleeve, and grips the fro

trying to explai

in my direction and Alpha Ta

u

is to roll myself backward, away from the railing of the balcony, keeping myself straight up and down as I

the curtain, tugging roughly on it un

my new bedroom floor, panting, I

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my

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to grab it off the bed, throwing myse

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you can be excused

noise burst from my mouth, which I

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I lau

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