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The last time I let someone in, he shut me down Cold And didn’t speak to ht now ripped the dru if he cared

The crowd roared as the song ended, and there pranced Trevor, just like he’d been years ago when the band started out, except that he was larger than life and had the wo out of his hand A fine, ht in all the right places All the guys had changed so h school, since I’d seen them at their debut

Sah his auburn hair, and while I couldn’t see his eyes because of the bright lights onstage, and the shadows that added to the reen-and-amber-flecked irises were still the sa the waitress who had come by withdown, ht, wrinkled lips, like a sreen eyes She was as skinny as I was lush, and about e, but Sa intently as Joe spoke aniood"

"You mean they’re just so hot," she said in a conspirator’s voice, nudging ently with her elbow "You’re not the first one in this roo one of the as she hurried off to deliver hed politely when she turned back and winked at ht? When soestion that taps into your inner world of fantasies, and hopes, and drea that isn’t quite appropriate for public, casual talk

And yet every word she said was true

Sam

"Trevor fucked a chicken?" I could barely hear anything Joe was saying to , but I heard that Fucked Chicken You don’taway in the zone

"Would you guys let it drop?" Trevor growled

"No, just a French kiss," Joe teased "After he proposed"

"What?" I shouted

Trevor waved his hand dismissively in Joe’s direction "It’s a bad joke"

No," Joe argued, "if I’d said you thought she was too fowl-mouthed for you, that would be a bad joke"

Groans all around

"Watch for a song about Mavis," Joe added as we stepped off the stage and walked back to our dressing roo room was far too fancy a term Alcohol-infused duh still kind

I sluht as well have been riding in a pi and hands on fire

Ever since Trevor disappeared and Joe went and rescued him in Ohio, the band had feltdifferent Richer and fuller in so some of the best damn lyrics, not only in the entire band’s history, but really so in new music like ours Whatever had happened to him in Ohio had transformed hihing, a little slow on the uptake "Maybe she could be our

"I’m your mascot!" an excited voice chirped And then the hair appeared, followed by those bright green eyes

Darla

Getting together with Joe, Trevor and Lia develop soirlfriend of thesomeone Beth had been o when she questioned how serious I was about life I guess having a horee in Political Science from UMass Amherst, and nowhere to live except his friends’ couches, didn’t really fit with her ie of what her future needed to be

"You take your music too seriously," she had said in that final conversation

"I do take it too seriously, because it’s serious"

"I am what you should take too seriously"

My silence hada slur of profanity that beat out any sorority chick’s drunken ras on TMZ

And so ere done

Good It’s good that ere done because life is a hell of a lot easier when it’s just you Just you and the druet by

Getting back to Darla She was unlike any girl I had ever ly sarcastic way that uys Sort of Damn if that woman didn’t say whatever came into her mind Who does that? No one in our lives did

Trevor planted a kiss on Darla’s cheek and mouthed "thank you" as she handed him, then Joe, a cold bottled water "You want one?" she asked me, so friendly and open

"Yeah Thanks"

Trevor slunk out after her, hands all over that nice, round ass, giggles filling the hall Then silence Then athat bottled water Not, at least, until they’d finished

Joe watched them leave, an amused half sot waitlisted for Penn?"

How the hell wasn’t he jealous?

"Earth to Sa one wo into the University of Pennsylvania Law School was Joe’s wet dreahtly, hoping that it was soods would view favorably