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Oh "Well… how bad could they really be? You said there’d be drinks"

She seemed to consider the question "Drinks will help I just hope on’t need them too badly With h it was inappropriate of me to think this way, I kind of wanted to bite it, too "If you’re sure it’s not a big inconvenience, I could really use the coh five, I said, "No problem But first, we make some headway on the Urban Studies project"

She slapped hteen

November

Bella

As a favor to Rafe, I wrote a spreadsheet to help tally up all the different business loans ere considering for our Urban Studies project Truthfully, I’d never been so caught up on ho in sick to hockey, I had a lot of tiht when I showed hi"

"We so are" It’s really astonishing what you can accomplish when you barely leave your room I was quite pleased with myself

Rafe threw his soccer jacket on the desk chair and sat down onmy computer into his lap "Are these interest rates accurate? They look high"

"Of course they’re right What do you take e with e rates And the terood"

Rafe’s dark eyes looked up at me in alarm "What if another team doesn’t know that? We could lose the contest and all because you’re s idea It’s usually the opposite -- being stupid is what bites h, under the right circuot wide, and I laughed "Don’t worry about the interest rate thing I’ll put a range of interest rates in the write-up"

"Good idea" He handed h practice today?"

"Always We’re playing Princeton on Sunday night, and coach is all fired up" He unzipped the book bag at his feet and took out his Urban Studies notebook

"If you’re tired, we can work on this toood Let’s hborhood, so we can see what’sthe search engine on my co I’d ever seen fro to pay hi to act like less of a bitch when Rafe was around It made me self-conscious to know he’d seen hed "Methodical is what keeps me afloat The Harkness workload has been a real shock to my system"

"Lots of people say that," I said quickly

"Do they?" he grue in his notebook "I haven’t lanced at the clock It was ten already, so I didn’t knoho it ht be "Co any better?"

"Uh, sure Trevi, this is hbor Rafe"

"Hey man" He shook hands with Rafe and then perched on oody," I said, ht But inside, I tre made the brilliant decision to hire his son as the student ave my job away?" Even as I said the words aloud, I wished I could take them back Because I sounded so pathetic

Across from me, Trevi rubbed the back of his neck with one hand "Yeah The guys are pretty pissed off In fact, I was thinking I’d get a bunch of theether and rite a letter to coach If there’s a dozen signatures on it, maybe he’ll listen"

"No," I said quickly "He won’t fire his own kid And Coach warned me His e to have to look around for soht I had a little time"