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Singer
80 days with Miles
Mother and Dad finally went back to Valencia on the Thursday after Lisa’s overnight in farmland. Their presence in the guesthouse was still obtrusive, but in another sense, Singer was grateful; Jake and Miles were back, but they could hardly work out all of their issues with his parents potentially walking in at any moment.
He and Jake had reached a sort of temporary truce. They wouldn’t push it while the guesthouse was occupied, but all the things they hadn’t said still hung over their heads, and Singer found his momentary resolve to iron everything out had waned. Maybe if they pretended long enough that everything was fine, it would be. That possibility seemed so real that Singer almost believed it.
The entire situation reminded him of Kara’s comment abo
