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"Semantics"

Chapter 19

Myrna crawled out of bed, slid into the discarded white sundress she found on the floor, and stuht to play a show in Florida The band would play an hour, and then the creould break down the set and be back on the road by ht to head up the Eastern seaboard She honestly didn’t kno these guys maintained their sanity Al they did was ride on a bus al day and night, constantlyfrom city to city with no ti the bathroo to bed, but decided Brian would wake up and then she’d spend several hours with his slihs Not that she ever considered that a bad thing, she just had work to do and found herself entirely too distracted to get anything done

Myrna shoved a stack of papers to the side of the square dining table, sat in the she-didn’t-want-to-knohy-it-was-sticky booth and booted up her coned an appropriate survey, she spent her evenings interviewing groupies Her project was e backlog of data While she waited for a shoddy Internet connection, she sorted es of beer-stained data, pul ed a sucker stick off one page, and eyed a uys were slobs and had no respect for her personal belongings She only tolerated the mess because she didn’t feel it was her place to correct thehton creating a data spreadsheet when the bus slowed and pul ed to a stop She craned her neck to peek out the heavily tintedon the other side of the bus Another fast food restaurant? Gag!

Jake cli in a wide yawn He started when he noticed Myrna sitting at the table

"I didn’t know anyone ake," he said "Do you want some breakfast?"

"Coffee would be fantastic"

"One coffee co up Make that two I’ the door open so fresh air could circulate into the cabin Myrna heard the unmistakable screech of her Thunderbird’s tires next to the bus The roadies were abusing the hel out of her car and theup quickly As convenient as it was to have a car at their disposal, she was going to have to put it in storage Driving the extra vehicle disrupted the roadies’ sleep rotation, which she recognized as a safety hazard

The bedrooed He blinked his eyes in the early aze focused on her "There you are I’ve been waiting for you to come back to bed for over an hour"

He didn’t even try to conceal his nakedness or his rock hard ck jutting into the space before him This was exactly why she hadn’t returned to bed He never al owed her time to catch up with her work His diversions were always spectacular so it wasn’t as if she could say no She didn’t want to say no Her body was already responding to his on some subconscious, primitive level She’d expected their ether 24/7, but it intensified with each day She’d never experienced anything like this She was hopelessly, et some work done," she said

"Are you finished now?"

"Uh…" She knew she wouldn’t be able to concentrate with ies of naked-Brian burned into her retinas "I can take a little break Actual y, we need to do sorinned "Great idea Your car I’l go find some pants"

"Wait, you misunderstood"