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"What happened to this place?" Jessica asked

Myrna continued to the s area, which consisted of two sets of curtained bunks stacked on either side of the corridor

"Huh?" Myrna glanced over her shoulder

"The bus It’s clean"

"Uh, one too uys clean it up I couldn’t live in that disgusting uys" to do anything when she’d briefly toured with theo And they’d been less famous then Less full of themselves

"Have a seat," Myrna offered "Would you like so to drink?"

"Thanks That would be nice" Jessica slid into the booth, her back facing the exit, and looked around the bus On second glance, this wasn’t the same bus they’d had when she’d toured with them This one was much nicer It even had a pair of doors that led to other rooms near the back

"What would you like?" Myrna asked

"Aren’t roup" Jessica chuckled

"No alcohol on this bus," Myrna said "If you want a beer, you’ll have to brave the other bus, which we’ve sty bus The roadies keep to that one e, apple, cranberry or grape And Trey’s new addiction, black cherry Kool-Aid"

"Water is fine"

Myrna retrieved two bottles of water froe and sat across the table fro drink

"Brian toldto law school," Myrna said

Jessica’s eyes widened Why would that even coht"

"So why are you working as a stripper?"

Was this wouys obeyed her commands She probably intimidated the hell out of them

"I’ed "I suppose not" She chuckled "I guess Sed was right about you"

Jessica’s brow furrowed "What did Sed say about me?" She knew she shouldn’t care, but her heart could scarcely beat in her constricted chest

Myrna shook her head nonchalantly and took a drink of her water "Nothing"

"I needed the ?"

"You needed money"

"Doesn’t ot fired"

"Sorry to hear that Are you looking for another job?"

"I dunno I couldn’t afford to pay o to my mother’s You know, I’ve had a very crappy twenty-four hours It all started the second Sed touched otten that Myrna seemed to actually like Sed "Sorry to unload on you You don’t even know me"

Myrna s of hiring an assistant to help me with my research project"

"Your research project?"