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When I came back out to the entry, he was at the closet by the front door "Here, put this on so you don’t get chilly" He handed rabbed another one for hi Bruno and tucked hi me toward the stairs Other residents were already on their way out and we joined the crowd

When we got to the sidewalk, we crossed the street where e people We waited on the sidewalk as Bruno paced around at the end of his leash, probably on the verge of passing out with excitement Braden put his arm around oing on around us as the et the weird feeling again, like so, and my eyes started to wander over the immediate vicinity

"You knoe’ve never had alley sex," I said, staring at a fairly dark side street

"That’s because alley sex is also known as disorderly conduct and public indecency Talk to ain in ten o to my place?" I asked after we had been out there for what felt like quite a while I looked around us at the crowd of tired-looking people and saw so alone so directly at us

"It doesn’t usually take this long Normally we’re back in in less than ten minutes" I turned toward Braden when he spoke, and when I turned back, the figure was gone I assu overtime these days Still, it didn’t hurt toBraden about the notes

"Braden, I need to tell you soht be followingus When I looked around, I saw a guy over there who see in our direction"

"Where?" he asked, suddenly sounding very alert

"He was standing over in that direction When I looked back a couple of seconds later though, he was gone Like I said, I just had a weird feeling and I also had one earlier, although I didn’t see anybody at all then"

"I don’t see anybody there now Are you sure he was looking at us? It’s pretty dark out here and there’s a lot going on"

"No, I’ a baseball cap and it hid part of his face It was probably just " The crowd started toBraden stopped to talk to the concierge on the way in

"So, what’s going on, Anthony? They don’t announce nightti to do theooderen’t in court or a whole lot of people would be doing hard time No pun intended