Wedding Night

know what the question is,

eyes closed, in a state o

new best friend Jo and he

ndation and put rollers

which eye look to give me,

if I'll be late back to the

half waking up and my mi

and th

thinking of Richard, I

going to be OK, I'm going

a new mission. A new trac

up martial arts. I could start a course of intensive t

eps like Hi

. Richard hates pierced b

uld

travel. Why have I

g back to Ikonos. It was

police arrived and every

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course there was Ben, my

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x we were thinking about

irst guy I ever felt so h

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dn't be

g to stay composed. "Ac

need to ma

my phone, and press Kay

tupid. It can't be

ly it's

es Kayla's voice.

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t been in touch since

ted the number of that

called yesterday while

ching my fing

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ou're positive he di

just

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date, I tell myself firmly.

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w many people are there

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except my o

se my eyes tight, and wait

in. And

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