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"I don’t e," Stuart says "That’s the one place you can always guarantee Jake will be okay I ured for having kids But that was before you I thought he was happy when you canant, he’s like sickly happy"

"You mean like you are with Josh" I poke him in the ribs

"Exactly" He presses a kiss to my head "Jake’s found his home And I think…" He looks a little abashed "Well, I think I ht have found mine, chica"

My heart lifts "That serious, huh?"

"I think so"

I wraphim

I cannot wait to meet hot Dr Josh at Jake’s party I’m almost as excited about that as I aeous" Stuart lifts his ar ht ahead, to see Jake walking towardfor o to him with his outstretched hand

No bloody way Not in a e in front of two thousand people

I shake ht blue eyes on ets a look of determination

I know that look It’s the one that usuallyfor a quick escape, but Stuart catches the sently pushes ive Stuart a "you’re in for it later" look He starts laughing

Jake wraps a fire

"What are doing?" I hiss into his ear, stuirl," he says, s I daren’t look out at all the people I can’t believe he’s broughtto bloody kill hi the irl, Tru" He gestures to me as some whistles and catcalls coether "Say hello to LA’s finest, baby" He looks atno way out of this, I lift ers,hello into the mike

A round of cheers and whistles cooes beet red

He is so fucking dead when I get hi theoff the albu aboutit"

My head snaps around to hi about me?

Jake meets my eyes, but I can’t read them

I start to feel a weird sense of disco for ht at the piano Because I hadn’t heard his words for s

I don’t knohether to kiss hi out of pity

Out ofa se Jake leadsenough to seat us both, and Jake pulls , so at least I can hide a little behind his body

I glance up at Denny behind the druive him a "you’re dead next after Jake and Stuart" look

Denny chuckles, shaking his head at me

I look back to Jake, just as he leans toward the fixed mike on the piano, and says, in that sexy, throaty voice of his, "Okay, this one is called ‘Everything Is You’…" He slides his eyes todown on the keys, Jake starts to play a gentletwenty feet away, feeling like ere still an ocean apart,

But there was no turning back, she had to be ht her in, chased her for a while, until she broke down,

Tell me you’re mine, that you’ll always be mine

Take that chance with me,

I’ll let you down, I know,

But I’ll fix it too, because everything is you,

Everything is you

She made her way to my bed, already soul deep inside me,

"It’s always been you," I said "The only one on ot wild, I broke the rule,

She left, taking everything with her

Take that chance with me,

I’ll let you down, I know,

But I’ll fix it too, because everything is you,

Everything is you

Like a beggar I pleaded for my home,

Words were the only way I kne,

Lighting the sky with pink, she turned back and sot you, baby, alwaysis you,

No matter where we are, with you by my side, I can walk these hite-lined streets blind,

You’reheart inside, you’ve givenis you

It’s the song he was playing at the piano that night

He didn’t write it because of what I said He’d already written it

That’s why he wouldn’t play it for ht He wanted to surprise me

My eyes have not left hi

My teeth are biting down on my wobbly lip, eyes heavy with tears For the whole time, it has felt like there is no one else in the theatre but Jake and me