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“Weird,” I said, putting the phone on the counter and turning it to speakerphone “Like it can’t be real”

“Have youover the noise of the tap

“Yep Not that it’s hard to replace a 2 line role, but you know” I splashed water on my face and rantoothpaste “I’h”

“A, you miss your boyfriend,” she teased me

“I’ The saer and better things”

“It’ll coo I’ve been up all night tearingis in place, ok?”

“Sure! Congrats,” I said, and we exchanged our goodbyes

I finished brushingup, and then pulled e was an extensive up do and so the hair stylists demanded I wash it only every third day As soon as ain and hit the nu Lias he spent doing paperwork, so I kneas there

He picked up on the third ring

“You hear soood news just now?” he asked, and I could hear his sh the phone line

“How did you know?” I protested, deflated that he guessed before I could tell him

“I saw her nao I aiting for you to call”

“Liae “You didn’t just take her… because ofin on her own”

“I know,” he replied I could hear papers shuffling “And to answer your question, no The audition video she sent in was her doing Waiting for Godot in 5 minutes—by herself All the parts Hoas I supposed to say no to that?”

I laughed

“That’s Sarah for you So, how’s your day going?”

“Mmm, it’d be better if you were here Today is orientation day for any new students, so we’re about to get flooded What are you doing?”

“Changing I’roaned all the same

“Ao out and make a speech in front of 100 students”

“It’s not reallyon a pair of sweatpants and a tank top One of the nice things about being on stage was that my appearance was not my responsibility For once, it was somebody else’s job to care about my hair, my makeup, stuff my bra or powder my chest bones

I was skinny, and I didn’t particularly like it It ca the HIV virus, which had not developed into AIDS yet But it ht light h my chest Liam, however, had alorshipped my body and never indicated any sort of displeasure Still, when I could, I y to hide it

“It kind of is, if you continue to tease me like that,” he replied “Are you ready for your last show?”

“I guess How exactly does one end so for 3 h I miss you a lot”

“I miss you too,” he said softly, his voice full of emotion which told me how much he meant it “Have you booked your train ticket yet?”

“No, not yet,” I ad, so I’ll just jump on the first one as soon as I wake up”

“Ok, give …” he said provocatively, which led in his arms after months apart True, we had our little visits here and there, but it wasn’t enough

“Alright” I told hi up It was just in time, because a knock came at my door

“AMY!”

“Jesus,” I said, throwing the phone on the bed and checkingopen the door, I found Drago standing there