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“So he just got up and walked away?” Kyla asks incredulously as she lathers shampoo into her hair.
“Shhh!” I dart my eyes around the locker room- Kyla and I are the only ones in the showers right now, but there’s no telling who’s at the sinks or toilets on the other side of the wall and I don’t need anybody eavesdropping on this conversation.
Kyla mouths the word ‘sorry’, still sudsing up the shampoo on her head.
I smile and roll my eyes, turning around under the hot stream of water to rinse the soap off of my chest.
“My bad,” Kyla whispers beside me. I can barely hear her over the sound of splashing water from the showers. “I forget sometimes that it’s a secret. And that there are always people around at this place.”
I flash her anther smile, knowing she didn’t mean anything by it. I keep my own voice low,
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