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instantly, “Only I have nothing
else to do, and I haven’t seen you since your parents’ party Saturday and I
just really want to catch up.”
    “Tyler,” Austin started worriedly. The last thing she wanted to discuss
was the reasoning behind her sudden disappearance.
    He put his hands up in a show of innocence, “I won’t ask about why you
left. I’ll allow you to tell me that when you need to. I just miss our chats
and right now it seems you could do with a bit of friendly company.”
    Austin still remained hesitant for a moment, her heart in her throat.
As much as she wanted time with Tyler, she really felt like she didn’t deserve
it. On top of that, she was scared to hear about how in love he was. She still
didn’t know who he was with and she hadn’t asked because she knew there would
be an immediate dislike towards whoever had stolen Tyler’s heart.
    “Fine,” Austin relented and headed up the path leading the way. She
quickly opened the door, running her hand along the wall to turn the light on.
Without a word she headed straight through the kitchen kicking her shoes off as
she went and chucking her handbag down onto the couch.
    “So what have you made of yourself in six years, Baby Girl?” Tyler
asked using the old nickname he had for her as they grew up. Being one of the
youngest in their class, he always teased her about being the baby. He slid
onto one of the bar stools in the kitchen and watched her go to the
refrigerator.
    “Would you believe me if I were to tell you it surmounts to nearly
three quarters of a million dollars?” she asked him back in response as she
handed him a beer and took a swig of her own.
    “No,” he replied honestly and smirked, “So what did you do? Rob a bank?
Marry a millionaire?”
    Austin laughed and took a seat, “It’s all legal don’t worry.” She began
and wrapped her hands around her beer and looked at him, her head resting on
her own shoulder for a moment. “Do you ever wonder what life would have been
like?”
    “Had you never left?” Tyler asked her. That question still stung, but he
had to be honest with himself. He watched her nod and he sucked in a quick
breath, “Yeah, all the time. I see our old house and I know I miss not having
the chance to exact our plans on it. We had so many ideas for it and never had
a chance to finalise them,” he ended with a shrug, “You?”
    Austin looked down at the lip of her bottle, “All the time,” she
admitted softly. If she had to admit what she wanted to do now was to down this
bottle of beer, then take Tyler’s and drink that, and finish the rest that were
in the fridge. She was feeling sorry for herself again.
    “I don’t like this Austin Pearson. She’s much too quiet and lifeless
than what I ever remember,” Tyler questioned her as he sat and watched how
withdrawn and unlike the old Austin he remembered growing up with.
    “I’ve not taken on all four hundred and fifty Point Arena citizens. I’m
waiting on that last judgement call,” Austin told him in return with a small
smirk. “Once that’s tackled you won’t be able to stop me.”
    “There she is,” Tyler said and slapped his hand to the kitchen
countertop. “The Austin I love,” he watched as her smile disappeared, “What did
I say?”
    Austin’s eyes squinted a little as she tried to make sense of
everything, “How can you even bear to be in the same room as me?”
    Tyler sighed, “Like I said it’s a lot of effort holding grudges and I
could never hate you.”
    “But you should,” she admitted and reverted her eyes away from looking
at him. “You should be number one on the list of getting me out of town.”
    “There’s a list?” he asked her playfully, trying to make her smile
again. “I could live in the past, or I can get over things. Now that’s not to
say I’m still in some state of shock that you’re back, but there are just some
feelings that never really go away and there are just some things that need