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continued.
she should have known better than to tell bennie to ‘calm down’ — since when had her hotheaded best friend ever responded well to those words? she’d seen the other girl blow up countless times at other people over less, but lelani still hadn’t seen this coming. stupid, really, because this was probably one of the most stressful situations either of them (but especially bennie) had ever been in, and their newly kindled relationship was bound to start showing cracks. “how am i acting like it doesn’t matter?” she demanded, before forcing herself to even out her tone. “i’m not. i’m just — trying to be reasonable about this.” someone has to be. now that, she definitely shouldn’t say. “someone has to be.” oh, for fuck’s sake.











