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He shrugged "After a while, she’ll trust you, too Just do a good job"

My"You really do this For real For real?"

"It pays well," he said blandly,his stuff so he could lock up "The woet half naked to make a pile of ued, picking at the string Woly? I felt like this was a forhts, I reminded

I quickly changed back into my own clothes and we left, Liahborhood

"Need a ride?" He pointed to his car, parked in a spot reserved for the building

Never turn down a free ride at five in the"Hell yes Trevor and Joe’s"

"I knohere you live" He rolled his eyes and started to say so, then finally did "You and Auys hook up?"

"Yep"

A funny look, like nostalgia and regret mixed with happiness and relief, crossed his face "Good"

"Your approval means so much to me"

"Fuck off You were such a douche to her"

"No shit" Like I needed that thrown in ht I’d just experienced

"I know you know, but I don’t think you really understand what you did to her" Liaainst the steering wheel What the fuck was this about?

"Why are you butting in on this?" I asked A si in me and I didn’t like it

"Because she has been my friend since, like, forever Since ere little kids"

And then I reone to et tense "She talked aboutlike that"

What did that mean?

The car came to a halt at the intersection near Joe and Trevor’s Our friendliness had shifted into a guarded tension I didn’t like I grabbed the costu down and waving through the closed

"No prob," he said without hts stayed in one

The walk to the apartment felt like I carried blocks of concrete in h I scored the job, I still needed to make some money over the next feeeks before the first paycheck would coht now, I needed cash in hand A few days earlier, before I’d iined I’d be interviewed and hired like this, I’d found a labor gig on Craigslist You could go on there and find just about anything that would pay you on the spot I stayed away froh the irony that I’d just secured a stable job as a stripper wasn’t beyondaro on Craigslist and find souys and a truck, and would pay you twenty, fifty, one-hundred bucks on the spot Plus lunch, if I was lucky

I didn’t have a truck, but I had strong arms More importantly, I had a cell phone bill to pay, and this pesky little thing called hunger The phone buzzed init was A me, You with Amy?

I texted back, No, why?

Aive it to you to give to her?

I wouldn’t be done with this job for hours A full day I can’t give it to her ‘til tomorrow I replied

K, Darla sent back quickly What’s her number? I’ll call her

I entered the number, but added, It’s 6AM, too early, don’t call her

K I’ll drop it in her mailbox on my way to work What’s the address?

I texted it back, and then added, if you do see her, tell her I said hi

You tell her, was all Darla wrote back, with a little smiley face

I stuffed the phone back in my pocket and resumed my wait for the dude with the truck to show up, so I could spend the next eight hours helping someone move from the Back Bay out to Weston, one of the tonier suburbs of Boston At the end of the day I’d walk home with about a hundred and twenty bucks, and that was the kind of security I needed That andboxes and furniture would savewith Liaig I’d ever need

I didn’t want Ae I lived It was sha, white box truck pulled up, and two guys named Jose and Paolo shook o off and make my own security To make myself worthy

A sunshine had ai over helped, but then I foundSaht, how his jeans cupped his ass as he turned the corner, the way his hands had--

And there is was

The feet the and arasm Now, please

And please, sir, may I have another?

You think blue balls are bad?

Try blue clit

Wait That sounds like some kind of STD Nevermind

The only surefire way to handle the throbbing is to rub one off Masturbate Self-pleasure Pick your ter it into an orgasthy stretch of tiy of having seventeen sex toys to choose fro the other still-packed boxes The boxes were four across, three deep, and six high A giant block of crap I’d probably never really need, but carried through life with me because it contained keys to my identity

Except the se Anyone looking in there would think I was a professional tester for Adam and Eve Which should definitely be a real job Becauseto cut it

Opening the closet, I search the first layer of boxes Nope