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“There is?” he asked

“You’re kidding, right?” I flipped on ate of the fort Living in town instead of on base had a lot of advantages, but the biggest disadvantage was that it took et ho any ti around We had only a certain number of minutes on Earth, and I didn’t want to waste them

“Yeah,her out, not inviting her over for China Buffet takeout and zo on the Xbox”

“Killing zombies sounds like the perfect date to o over ith most women”

“Meet us at six, all right?” Sean said, ignoring my comment “And shower, yeah? You smelled like ass today”

“I forgot fucking deodorant,” I replied It was one of the hazards of sleeping through my alarm

“Right,” he said “Shower Six o’clock at the sushi and steak place” He hung up before I could reply

“Shit,” I ainst the headrest It looked like I was going out tonight after all

By the ti in on five thirty I stripped as I walked toward my bathroom, but carried the discarded clothes withafter I’d moved out of my parents’ house that if I didn’t clean upin a shithole

After a quick shower and shave, I slapped on some deodorant and dressed in jeans and a button-down shirt The place I wasSean and the ladies wasn’t fancy A T-shirt would have worked fine, but I rarely had the chance to dress nice, and wolanced in the mirror to make sure I looked presentable My twin brother, Abraharief if he’d known I’d put in this much effort for a blind date

Even before he’d hooked up with our foster sister, Ani—yeah, that happened—he’d rarely made much of an effort to date, and he would never in a ht unseen Abraham and I were opposites in alone on in the past few years, he’d shit his pants Bra ser

By the time I pulled up in front of the steak house and parkedweek, and for the first ti nice with so, but damn, I was tired