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Jackie, the girl Gabe had been casually dating off and on for the past few ht of finallyto be invited to Sunday lunch at his mother’s house towas, Gabe just couldn’t see her around his fa too, but there was a reason she and Marcus fit so well together Nicola was far irls
Especially Jackie, Gabe thought as she started toward the too long Quickly deciding that he’d break it off with her tonight, he wasn’t looking forward to her tears She was a crier, which was partly why he hadn’t had the balls to make a clean break these past weeks
"How the hell did you end up with her again?" Gabe asked Marcus a couple of hours later as they stood to the side and watched Nicola char bucks to see her do a short acoustic set in the fire station’s parking lot Theway to getting the new equip hard to co to take any credit for it, Marcus simply said, "I’m the luckiest bastard on the planet" He nodded his head in Jackie’s direction, way up at the front of the group, clearly in awe of every little thing Nicola said or did "What about her?"
Gabe shook his head "Just a casual thing that’s run its course"
Nicola had just finished her set when the station alar out over the station’s loudspeakers, alerting them to an apartment fire
Gabe and the rest of the crew immediately moved to put on their turn-outs and headed out, their alar to clear the busy city traffic
"Wow, that was intense and they’re not even at the fire yet," Nicola said a few ether in a corner of the station "I don’t kno your ht now"
"This is what Gabe does He’ll be fine," Marcus reassured her
But fifteen oodbyes to the volunteers who had set up the concert and were about to get into Marcus’s car to head back up to Napa Valley, another station alar to 1280 Conrad Street, be advised, upgrading to third alare eyes "That’s the fire Gabe went to It sounds like it’s gotten worse, not better"
"My brother is a hell of a firefighter," Marcus told her "He’s not the kind of guy who’d ever do soether while the siren continued to blare and dispatch repeated the call, both of theot hurt in the line of duty
And all they could do was hold on to each other and hope that Gabe would be all right
~ THE END ~