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Claire rolls her eyes “Wow, you have such a ords Anyway, yeah, that’s a crude and gross representation of what happened Thanks for that You said you were going to go up to the rooht, which is the most blatant lie I have ever heard in all my life”

She picks up the TV re for so specific

I re forward to that bath and then relaxing in this ridiculously comfortable bed with its 1,500 thread-count sheets It’s not every day I get to experience luxury like this, and I wanted to make the most of it

I’al I love to travel, but I don’t have the kind of incoo

To be honest, I’m cool with that, and even kind of enjoy the random people and the cool experiences you can have in hostels, but I’as with Claire this time Claire would not be found dead in a hostel—she’d freak out at the mere concept

She’d insisted we stay at the Bellagio, penthouse suite, her treat Well, her Dad’s treat She has access to his credit cards, and she is not afraid to use them

The fanciest restaurants, spas and es, room service whenever antI’ve actually started to feel kind of guilty i in my head

Claire had invitedthe new job I’d been angling for It was an ad Fortune 500 co to write ho

After working dead-end jobs for so long, landing it had been A Big Deal I finally feel like a real grown-up with a real job, and of course the first person I’d called to tell was Claire

“Oh !” she’d squealed down the phone “When do you start?”

Upon finding out that I still had a week to go, she’d ihts to visit her in Vegas And so that’s where I found over froht to get her so excited

Claire is still flipping through channels, until, with an excla for She points at the TV and giggles “Look!”

My eyes are still kind of blurry, and I blink to try and clear them

On the screen, two people It looks like they are co out of a chapel Wait, not just any chapel, one of those tacky 24-hour Vegas chapels