Some feelings are easy to ignore. Others settle in your chest and refuse to leave. For Billie Eilish, that feeling has a name. Sabrina Carpenter. As their worlds begin to overlap, quiet moments turn into lingering looks and unspoken tension builds into something neither of them is brave enough to acknowledge. But there's only so long you can pretend not to feel something this intense. "Do you have any idea the things I want to do every time I picture you?"

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"Halima just called me." She spoke up, talking about my sister. "She said your mom wanted to talk to me." "Oh yeah.." I trailed off, thinking about what my brother had just told me. "She wun' see you and Mya." I told her, already knowing what it was my mama wanted from her. "Yeah, I know. We just talked." She spoke surely as I licked my lips slowly, waiting for what she was going to say next. I already knew she wasn't feeling it. "It's just-" "I don't want to go down there and you-" She started but stopped as I waited for her to speak. "-you get involved with them again." She spoke truthfully, saying shit that I already knew she would. I already knew she was gone bring that shit up. She always do. "I don't trust Delante or any of your stupid ass friends because they are only interested in taking you backwards, Cain." "And I'm not going for that again." "I'm not." She spoke seriously and I sighed deeply, really used to hearing this shit already. "We're at a better place in our lives and I'm not playing those street games anymore."

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