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P:How do you think?

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D:Sorry.

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D:I am. Sorry.

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P:So not a one-off, then?

D:No. No, I guess not.

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D:But you know we can’t do that again, don’t you?

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P:Yes.

A breath exhaled.

D:Okay. It never happened.

P:It never happened. Twice.

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P:I should get dressed. Pass me that – under the desk.

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P:Thank you.

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D:And you know you can’t tell the others, don’t you?

P:I’m not an idiot, D—.

D:I know. I know you’re not an idiot.

P:I can’t find my other sock.

D:Because they wouldn’t understand. You know that don’t you? That they wouldn’t understand?

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D:And they wouldn’t believe you. No one – they just wouldn’t.

Chapter 62

Saturday | Early hours

Lily

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