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“Yeah, I’m fine.”

“Are you sure? You don’t look ok…”

He didn’t say anything so I leaned back and closed my eyes for a little bit.

I opened my eyes when I heard Kayce groan. Luke was rubbing out a knot in his shoulder, and it looked like it hurt.

“Ow! Not so hard, Luke!”

“But if it doesn’t hurt, it’s not helping. Do you want me to stop helping?”

Kayce yelped as Luke dug his knuckles into his shoulder. At that point in time, I was really glad that Luke wouldn’t touch me. I didn’t want him trying to rub out my knots and hurting me! I know that it hurts when you try to rub a knot out, but it doesn’t have to hurt that much.

Katie looked back from the passenger seat.

“What are you doing to him? Are you trying to kill him?”

“I’m just trying to get this knot out of his shoulder. I guess I’ll work on it some more later.”

Luke sat back and looked at Bruce.

“Do you have any knots you want me to work on?”

Bruce looked terrified.

“Yeah, I think I have a knot or two. I don’t know if I want you to work on them though…”

It was too late. As soon as Luke heard that Bruce had a couple of knots he grabbed his shoulders, trying to find them. Bruce leaned his head against the seat in front of him, giving up.

I looked out the window for a while before looking back at Bruce. He had moved his head – instead of just leaning up against the seat in front of him, he was biting it.

“Bruce, are you ok?”

He gave me a thumbs up.

“Luke, stop, you’re hurting him.”

“I’m just trying to help him. I know it hurts – I’ve had it done to me too. But it will feel better in the end.”

“I know that, but you don’t have to do it that hard.”

He kept going. In the end I just pushed him off of Bruce and took over. Bruce stopped biting the seat then, which made me happy. I don’t know why it made me happy, but it did. (I’m weird. :D)

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