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Chapter 1

Alex

On the day I h ot to bring running shoes, and had to run five miles in my boots, all before noon By the end of the day, I was spent All I wanted to do was go home and watch TV in my skivvies with a six-pack of beer in arm’s reach

Just as I clireed to be the winguy well, but since we’d be working together and potentially deploying together, I hadn’t felt like I could blow hiuys in our platoon were in serious relationships and couldn’t help hiht up Sean’s contact information inlot

“Haven’t you been on a date with this chick before?” I asked as soon as Sean answered his phone

“Hello, Alex,” he laughed “Long time no see”

“I didn’t catch you before you left the building,” I replied “Haven’t you guys hung out already? Why a?”

“Yeah, I couldn’t wait, so we uess she’d already h, and she didn’t want to cancel”

I opened ain

“You gotta coirl, she’s so hot,” he said I could practically hear hih the phone

“And you haven’t sealed the deal yet”

“I never kiss and tell,” he lied “But no I like her and she’s not the type Wants to hang out for a while first”

“Hang out or date?” I asked, switching the phone to Bluetooth so I could drive “Because there’s a difference”