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The club was quiet when I entered I usually showed up early before we opened on Saturdays to set up the karaoke syste today Over the past feeeks, I’d coht Ever since I’d perfor karaoke, a horde of wo that very same piece, as if I’d automatically think their performance was better than hers had been

I never did She never carew even moodier

I bla one of uy Knox had snagged Felicity--the lucky bastard It was irls I didn’t even know and had only seen once across a crowded club

It was jealousy Plain and siuys had Seeht stands, and honestly, that wasn’t reallyall up close and personal, sharing eryeah, justwhy? I still partook when I was hard up, but I really didn’t see the appeal, didn’t get why sorand lifestyle It sucked ass if you wanted ht stand liked it best and with only one shot to do it right, sex was always like a roll of the dice I either struck it lucky and left her happy or failedthat ever happened with one-night stands, which just seemed empty and pointless

One day, I wanted to knooman inside and out, knohat made her breath catch and her toes curl I wanted to knohat made her smile, or what pissed her off I wanted to be able to just cuddle with her on a couch and eat popcorn while watching a ue which was the best band everout with a person I wanted to be with I--ah hell I wanted a girlfriend

I was the freaking lead singer in a rock band and I wanted to be in a goddaet my head checked

"Hey, Hart"

I ju anyone else was in the building I hadn’t seen Pick’s car parked outside either

"Step back inin the opening of the back hall andme forward

Knots ie, I watched him turn away and disappear down the hall

"Shit," IPick lately I think he knew it and had respected e hi to be about

Regret clung to e I never should’ve told hiht Felicity had mentioned he’d been abandoned by his nawed at ht

Becausebirth to it

Two years before she hooked up with my dad, she’d been sixteen and in love with sos between them had been intense At least that’s what she’d always told me My bedti her life had been before I caed her into his world and turned her into a crack whore, then knocked her up with me

Once upon a time, she’d been happy and in love with her humblehim a no-account drunk, so she’d run from home to be with hi on his own, he’d taken her in They were together about four nant Life was perfect then, she’d always clai to start their little family and live happily ever after

Until herso hione into preiven birth to a little boy on the sahtered It was all too much for her to take in; she couldn’t even look at the baby after it was born She’d snuck out of the hospital in the ht and wandered the streets a few days before she tried going home to her fa to do with her

She was ho in dirty alleyhen Miller Hart stu one of his sales He’d offered her drugs if she’dwell, I like to block out that part of her story, so I prefer to think he only offered her a warm, dry place to stay