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Luke.
Seven hours went by, and I still couldn't get my mind off Valerie. Each time I thought about the fact that she had gone off to meet some man, my heart raced faster, and my teeth grind hard on each other.
Shelby's attempts to get me to have a long conversation with her were rather unpleasant, because I was always pulled out of the discussion she started.
At some point, I tried to take my mind off it, focus on something else and decided to ask Shelby some questions too since she had been doing all the questioning all day.
"You and Valerie, you are friends?" I asked, watching her as she walked out of one of the rooms, a round thing in her hand.
"Well. . . . Val and I have known each other for long," she explained. "We're really close, yeah you could say that."
"A long time? How long?"