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"Time to blow out your candles, Birthday Boy!" Marie announced as they hauled him off to the food table Ta to Ryan before he blew the candles out

Everyone was having a great ti darts Ryan’s friends were atteet him wasted but he reached a point where he refused to do anyand stayed away froh he did try to talk to me several times

I noticed that Suzanne and Francesca sat at the bar all night Cory was leaning across the bar, flirting tough with Francesca He even got aith touching her hair a few ti to be shy, but she was definitely engaging Cory’s advances

Scott and Suzanne were hitting it off tre his ar he said

Despite outward appearances, she still knehere Ryan was at all tiuests had already left

"Do you mind if I take off?" Cory asked, his eyes slid over in Francesca’s direction Suzanne and Scott were practically wrestling with each other; they couldn’t keep their hands to the i at Cory while he talked to me

"They invited us back to their hotel," he admitted

For some reason, I wasn’t too surprised

"Go ahead Have fun Wait, are you driving?" I asked

"Yeah, it’s okay though, I stopped drinking a while ago I want to remember every detail of the next couple of hours if you knohat I ly and flashed his eyes back to Francesca "I’ll bring Ryan’s buddy back to?" Ryan stopped dead in his tracks and wheeled around when he noticed Scott leaving Scott didn’t even acknowledge Ryan; he was couests departed and it was alhts I planned to clean up the bar in the s to take care of

Matt and Laura were stoay couestroom I closed our bedroom door and smiled in disbelief

My birthday boy was sprawled out on our bed, wearing nothing but his birthday suit and a slightly drunken grin… waiting for his birthday present

Chapter 24 - Sobering

"What the hell happened to Scott last night?" Matt asked, stuffing another piece of bacon in hisher turn in the shower