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I give her a smirk and say, "Yeah…as you can see, kind of busy"

There it is…hurt, pain, confusion on that beautiful face And for a split instant, I feel vindicated I feel happy that she’s feeling the brutality of rejection…same aseyes "Please"

A sharp pain pinches at my chest, followed by a wave of shao away I call on the memory of my misery these last feeeks and I let it fortify etic voice "But maybe I’ll call you sometime"

Olivia looks bewildered She looks at et shiny, but she hastily blinks to dispel the forives me a short nod of acceptance, but she can’t hide the tiny quiver of her lip as she turns away Her shoulders sluh the crowd and toward the exit door

Total guilt overwhel my breath away

"Aw, fuck," I mutter as I pull away from the brunette

"God, what a skank," she says to the touilt is coe

I round on the woet in her face "Bitch…you need to look in thesoasp and shrink away frolance I push hly, and h it and practically run over Olivia, who is just standing there, looking across the parking lot My hands coon me, but the minute she sees it’s me who has her, her body relaxes Her eyes flash hot and she pulls away "Decided maybe you did have soh my hair "Yeah…look, I’m sorry about that I was not with those women They had just come up to me to talk when you walked in"

She cocks a jaundiced eyebrow at me and folds her arms across her chest "Didn’t look that way to me That woman looked awful cozy with you"

"You didn’t seeit, did you?" I shoot back at her

"You certainly weren’t pushing her away," she fires back at h heavily "Look…I was trying to piss you off Hurt you the way you hurt me I clearly succeeded, and I’ht it would"

Olivia snorts and soer dies out of her eyes She watches me for a minute, then says, "I’m sorry I hurt you Please know my motives were to prevent you pain down the road I’d never want to hurt you"

Some patrons come out of the bar, loud and rowdy This isn’t the place to talk, so I take Olivia by the elbow and lead her deeper into the parking lot, away from the noise

When I release her, I turn to her with a heavy heart and a fatigue in my soul "So, what did you want to talk about?"

Olivia sucks her bottoile skin Her eyes are cast dohen she says, "I made a mistake"