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"Buck up, Lily Pad," he said "Things are about to get better I promise"

"Yeah" She shook her head "And how exactly is that going to happen again?"

"Because you’ve got me at your back now," he said, a smile in his voice "Trusta little as she sighed Besides, what choice did she have? "Okay, but you’d better be right"

"Always am," he said "Always aet out of the car but realized her feet were bare She looked around, but apparently along with her city shell she’d also lost one of her wedge sandals Maybe it earing an invisibility cloak The search led to soe in the backseat, and she finally grabbed the next thing she cah as she slid her feet into the this ould have raised eyebrows, but it was par for the course in Cedar Ridge Or at least it had been Torn between hoping things hadn’t changed and that they had, she headed into the convenience store, planning on getting in and out without seeing anyone she knew

There were a handful of other customers in the place, but no one looked farabbed an arroups--chocolate and salt--then made her way to the front counter to check out

The convenience store clerk gave her a big eyebrow raise as she duirlfriend because he didn’t say anything as he started to ring her up

She didn’t recognize hi tirabbing one e of cookies from the counter display

"Nice," the clerk said without a s her up "I especially like the way you’ve got the entire junk food pyramid represented here That’s not easy to do"

She had a pack of donuts, two pies--one leht ice crea of chips, and now cookies as well

"Bad breakup?" the clerk asked

"No" Only a little bit of a lie Because there was bad and then there was bad bad And hers had definitely been the latter

"S too much wacky-tobacky?" he asked

She could one hundred percent understand why he ative No, she was attributing this junk food fest to getting fired froo salon where she’d worked until three weeks ago

Apparently she was going to eat her feels about that whole situation