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"Hey, are you ok?" A voice sounds forcing me to open my eyes.
"Yeah," I respond with a smile.
"Do you want me to get the driver to fetch you some clothes at home? You can stay here as long as you want." She says but I shake my head, and my smile remains.
"He's doing better now, I'm gonna call Mickey to come and get us a bit later on." I say and she nods her head in understanding.
After I'd been by Ezra's side the whole night while he slept, I'd decided to go back downstairs to watch some tv as I couldn't sleep. I must've dozed off on the couch sometime after.
"Alex, I know how difficult this is for you right now." Michaela says and I look at her in a bit of confusion. How could she possibly understand what I'm going through? No one will ever understand and that's the thing. She seems to sense my ranting mind because,
"Dating a football player is hard." She ex
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