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I happen to like it, ot a nice ring to it

Veronica Shrike? Maybe

Ronnie Shrike Better

Ron the BoirlRonnie I fish my phone out of my pocket and flop down on the couch I press her nus

Voice or playing If you need et back to you!" Shesound and then the beep

"Hey, Ronnie You should coain and pocketcall before I can release it, so I pull it back out I look at the screen "Yello, baby! Wanna co a call fronize it, sorry"

"What? You deleted my number? For why?" I’ ide eyes

"Why? Why? You have so nerve, Spencer I haven’t talked to you since fking Halloween!"

She’s on drugs She ht need a blood test "I took you out for New Year’s, you hot little amnesiac"

"No, you did not take irlfriends, Spencer"

"We ate, we drank, we fked How is that not a date?" This is what dates usually entail

She growls at h the phone "The food was free, the drinks were free, and I was too drunk to remember most of the fk, so it hardly counts I definitely don’t recall an orgasm"

"Ha!" I pull the phone away from my ear and find the voice memos, then push play on the one dated New Year’s

"Ohhhh, Spencer!" Veronica wails in the recording "Baby, yes!"

My phone does the three-beep thing that says the call ended I laugh and call her back It rings through again "Ronnie, come on! It was funny, you knoas Since when does this shit piss you off?" I stop talking And wait I’onna respond I frown and let out a sigh "Well, fk You’re uess Sorry, Rons Seriously Call me back, OK?"