All The Pieces (Pieces of Lies 3)

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are, and you can’t escape, no matter how far you try to run and hide.
    She looked back out to the city and back to me again. “Josh...there is something I should have told you about tonight.” The look on her face was strained. I could see the worry as she looked at me.
    I reached out to her elbow, encouraging her to get closer. “What is it?” I asked.
    “I know I should have mentioned this earlier, but...I invited Clint and Samuel to my show. I’m sorry Josh. I didn’t mean not to tell you. I...wasn’t sure they would even come.”
    “You invited Clint and Samuel?”
    I was completely thrown by this new information. Why would she invite them?
    “Yes, well...I didn’t send them an official invitation. I only sent them an email. It’s just...They helped inspire the other two sets of my collection. I only thought it would be right if they got to see what they helped create. You know, a friendly gesture. They were my best friends for different periods of my life. I haven’t forgotten that. I was just hoping...oh God...I’m really stupid...I shouldn’t have even tried...”
    “What were you hoping for Norah?” I watched her carefully, trying to understand why she had contacted them. Why she still needed them. Just...why?
    “I was hoping for their friendship is all. I know, I know. An awful idea after everything that happened. And I know I should have told you I emailed them. I didn’t mean not to tell you. I’m so sorry. It wasn’t intentional. I think I always knew that they wouldn’t show up, so there was going to be no need to tell you. And obviously they didn’t come, so friendship’s clearly off the table. I guess that even though I’ve forgiven them, they haven’t forgiven me for what I said.” She paused and then, quite regretfully, sighed. “I can’t blame them.”
    She looked out towards the city as sadness ghosted her face. She missed their friendship. I could understand that. I knew all too well they were not the bad people I had made them out to be. Should have I told her Clint was here, and that they had both tried to come tonight? She had invited both guys as friends and to see her collection that they helped inspire her create, and again, I had a hand in changing the course of events. Norah was blaming herself for the way she acted with them as the reason they had not showed. I was starting to get a bad feeling that with what I had already done, and with what she was already thinking, that I was changing Norah’s real path. Our love shouldn’t be circling back around to these guys. Yet I had just stopped Clint and Samuel from seeing her and being part of her life again. I was manipulating her fate. I had spit in its face and taken control of it involuntarily. A sick feeling in my stomach was building. The way I was playing with all their lives was going to be my undoing. How long did I have before everything was exposed?
    “Was it stupid for me to think we could ever be friends again after what happened Josh? Am I being one of those naive and selfish girls who thinks she can have more?”
    I looked away from her gaze, trying to hide my guilt. “No, you are not stupid Norah. You shared a lot of yourself with those guys. Of course you are going miss that side of them which once made you happy. And I know how your heart works. It doesn’t just dispel people. I can understand why you would want to be their friend. It wasn’t an impossible thought.”
    She was trying to find balance and peace in her life and missed the bonds she once had with them. And again, I had prevented Norah from knowing the truth about two people who probably genuinely wanted to be part of her life too. I was going to hell for this, but I couldn’t undo what I had done, so I just moved forward, trying not to think about my wrongdoings. My love and need for Norah was all that really mattered to me. My own darkness was a selfish part of my own being.
    “It’s their loss Norah,” I said, sounding sweet and

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