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Perry leaned forward across the counter with great interest "Ooh, he does?"

"He does not," I said, rolling htest bit of jealousy when Josh showed up or sent flowers"

"So you atching for jealousy?" Florence teased

"Just so I’d knohere things stood I wanted to see if there’d be a situation I needed to defuse Things ot jealous ofwe’d been dating, but that could have just been casual conversation, not an indication of interest, so I decided I wouldn’t ive Florence any additional ammunition

"Order up!" the cook called, and Perry went to get our , and I want updates about this boss," she said as she handed us our bags

At ot dishes and drinks fro a disc in the player when I returned "I think a good chick flick is just what the doctor ordered," she said as the two of us settled onto the sofa

The hborhood as a perky pop tune played and the credits showed on the screen It was an eerily familiar situation "Do you ever have days when you feel like that, where you can practically hear the song on the soundtrack?" Florence asked I turned to see if she was joking, but she looked serious

"I guess," I said with a shrug It did look an awful lot like sos had felt

Then theAs usual, the heroine had a boyfriend as obviously wrong for her when the right guy fell into her life "Sometimes, I just want to s her head in frustration "Shouldn’t it be obvious that this is the wrong guy?"

"I don’t know He doesn’t seeh I didn’t think I’d want to date hi I’ll tell you what he is: He’s the safety net The coe her, but she’s also not going to grohen she’s with hi?" I asked

She raised her hands inthe h, she’d ditch him in a heartbeat for the heartthrob She just sticks with him because otherwise it would be the world’s shortestThe End"