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The day was spent close on the couch though they kept to their goals of not pushing themselves during the day. Bailey felt better than she had in months with everything that had happened in the past few days. That surprised her in a way she didn’t expect. She had known Max since childhood, but this side of him was even better than the one who had played with her when she was little.

Gavin and Ana had been her close playmates being that Gavin was only a year older than her, and the next in line was Ana. Bailey had thought of Ana as her own alive doll when she was born. They had remained close even through the awkward years for both of them. The rest of her brothers and sisters had also formed groups with Max’s siblings. He had been close to her older twin brothers, who were the same age.

There was something comforting about the closeness of the two families. Though it did pose to be slightly weird when she looked