“You gonna throw my paper heart in the trash?” Neeka’s heart skipped a beat. All of her giggles subsided along with her smile. She shook her head negatively. “Well what you gonna do with it?” He seemed very serious. He seemed to joke in a way that by the time you realized he was joking, you would realize that he wasn’t. Neeka furrowed her eyebrows. “Give it to me and find out,” she whispered. She saw his Adam’s apple bulge, he must have swallowed the lump similar to the one she felt growing, but hers was in her gut. He held his hands out and she realized that he was giving it to her in a
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