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Jaime looked around Ava’s studio with his hands shoved in his pockets. They’d left the Solstice Party together in Mat’s car, Jaime’s bike folded up in the backseat. ‘Wow,’ he said. ‘So many classics.’ He picked up her Exuberant Alarm Clock and turned it over. ‘This was one of the first projects Andie let me work on.’
‘It’s one of my favorites,’ Ava said. She sat on her Practical Sofa with her feet up on her Very Nice Box and watched Jaime take stock of the rest of the apartment while Brutus paced between them. She liked the delicate, thorough way Jaime looked at all her things. He knew which items were discontinued, which ones were first editions, which ones she had worked on, which ones were Andie’s.
He pulled two beers from the refrigerator and squinted at the label, which depicted
