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"Rise and shine!"

"Uugghhhhhh."

"..."

"Stop laughing. This is not a laughing matter."

"No it totally is, especially when you wake me up at one in the morning with your drunken banter."

"Oh god. What did I say?"

"Oh nothing...August."

"Welp. There goes my plan."

"What plan?"

"You know. Like one of those cute books where you don't learn their name and use like a code nickname until they actually meet in person."

"You mean the one where they run into each other's arms and kiss?"

"Yeah exactly."

"Woah there cowboy. Slow down. I just agreed to being friends."

"HA! SHE TOLD YOU! You just got turned down boy!"

"Who's that?"

"RYAN I SWEAR TO GOD. That's no one—he's no one."

"Awe harsh little bro. That got me right in the feels."

"He's probably your gay lover."

"You weren't suppose to find out yet!"

"GET OUT!"

"Nooo I wanna talk to the girl you never shut up about."

"What?"

"Stop laughing, he's lying—I said get out."

"No wait I wanna talk to Ryan."

"..."

"OOOOOO SHIIIIITTTTT—ow, ow, ow—ok! We will talk another time my love!"

"Noooo, Romeo!"

"You are not allowed to talk to my brother."

"Are you sure he's not your gay lover?"

"He—I'm positive, Audrey."

"Oh now you're pregnant?"

"What—no."

"You paused. There was a pause."

"Because—oh my god. I'm too hungover to handle you right now."

"Wimp."

"You won't be saying that when you're the one waking up from bad decisions."

"I feel like you being drunk was justified though."

"What do you mean?"

"You didn't just tell me about your name..."

"Oh no. I didn't—"

"You did."

"Yeah I'm a fuck up."

"That's a reason you got drunk but it's not the only one.."

"What else did I say...?"

"I'm sorry about your uh...your mom."

"Yeah....she's well, she's coming back home in a couple of weeks."

"Do you know what happened?"

"..."

"Oh I'm—I didn't mean to—"

"No, no it's ok. Umm, she was coming home from work—ironically from the hospital and...it was late. There was a drunk driver. He didn't see her. Smashed right into the driver side door."

"Oh my god."

"Yeah. Doctors say she's lucky though. From how fast he was going and how hard he hit her, her injuries are pretty minor. Only a broken leg, fractured collar bone, and bruised lungs from the air bag."

"That's good I guess."

"Yeah.."

"Are you ok?"

"I'm doing ok. Dad's taking it better than I thought he would."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah."

"..."

"..."

"Hey Audrey?"

"Hmm?"

"Thank you."

"..."

"August?"

"Yeah?"

"...never mind. Talk to you tomorrow."

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