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Sinclair aiting in reeted him with a screeched, "Don&039;t look, don&039;t look!" as I hustled s over to uess you bought ht?"

"If you&039;re adue, but I felt better about you after you throttled my sister into semiconsciousness What can I say? I&039;m a sucker for the old-fashioned stuff" I realized I hadn&039;t exactly answered his question, because I added, "The thing I had on layaas finally paid off, that&039;s all Don&039;t go reading anything into it"

"You&039;ve been with Jon, then?"

I groaned miserably and sat down on the bed to pull off my shoes "Coain, willya? I was also with Laura, but that doesn&039;t e in their trots"

"I think you mean you were not the trois," he corrected "And I was not starting up that tired shit again My irritation with Jon now extends far beyond his romantic intentions"

"Oh yeah? God, the mind reels What&039;s he done now, start up with his tired old shit? The Bees active again?"

"No But his current activities are alerous to you Your life story is not appropriate for publication, in any foru it off as fiction, a cute idea for a classroo is that it&039;s supposed to be about a real person, and some of us know it is, but everybody else thinks-"

"I&039;&039; Which is what he makes me want to do, by the way"

"Why, Sinclair! That was dare I think the word a joke? A yarn, a tale, a co?"

"Further as an excuse to stay close to you"

I sighed and stuck my shoes in s

"Elizabeth? I breathlessly await your commentary"

"What can I say? Maybe it is Maybe it&039;s a little weird that out of all the projects he could have thunk up, the one he picked is the one that lets him follow me around and ask questions"

"Ah" He looked at enius, but I&039;uys like nize the symptoms, poor bastards"

"Yes," he said "We are poor bastards"

I didn&039;t knohat to say to that, so I just continued ht "I don&039;t know Maybe I feel sorry for hiht I owed hiot his heart sto vampires was because he liked nanimous in victory?"