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The farther Lucy stays away fro ainst mine and leans intoon my nerves and I’m not sure if it’s her or if it has more to do with ers "Excuse me Server?"

Lucy scowls inat her like an ass "Are you actually doing that?" Annie laughs and looks at irl?"

I rub my forehead and shake my head

Taylor rolls her eyes "What? It’s her job"

"Did you need soary It doesn’t er in her eyes

"A box"

"Please," Chase adds

"No probleuess you need two? So with your buffalo strips?"

"Guess I’ht," I clip out I don’t knohy I’ a dick to her She really seeht when he said I liked her But therein lies the problem

Her lips pout out for a second before she turns that fake ss earlier "Not everybody can handle the heat"

I watch her strut her tight, round ass aith a huge grin onover

I feel pretty good

This is weird

I hear the banging of pans in the kitchen and rearettes and rab a quick smoke on the fire escape If I bend out over the side a little, I have a perfect view of Lucy and Bree in the kitchen

Bree turns onbreakfast When Lucy starts swaying her hips in front of the stove I turn away I don’t need that i and blow out a puff of s realization This is it This is lance over my shoulder as Lucy leans out the ith a cup of coffee "Black, right?"

"Yeah" I take it and ers brush over hers Her eyes flick to mine She ducks back in and it occurs to arette butt into the old beer bottle on the ledge and sip ? Who the fuck aht about this shit in a long tih irl with multi-colored hair and a bad attitude seers itself behind ers twitch with the desire to pick up my phone and call Hope Iabout this? About her

Laughter drifts out the openand I bend until I can peer inside Lucy’s head is tipped back and she’s cracking up over soht Her beauty hits me like a punch in the face and pullsher as I sipall my attention to Lucy as sheher head to Guns N’ Roses Her braid flies frouitar

Jessie slides past me and jumps up on a chair to serenade us "Take s loudly And extre until tears are pouring down her face Jessie keeps singing obnoxiously off key

Large gray eyesto my room where I stay until I’m sure she’s left

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Lucy

"How did you talkon her hand I love live bands, but I hate crowds

Bree laughs, tucking a strand of thick, black hair behind her ear "I didn’t have to try too hard, Lu You wanted to co I did A lot I’ve never seen Park perfor once on the ay before he went into his apartine how he’d sound with a band behind hiood," she says She’s been to two of their shoith Jessie I passed, but when she asked ht, I couldn’t resist anymore

Bree puckers her lips and nods her head to the band playing a cover of a Steve Miller Band song This reminds me of hoe met We bonded over our unique tastes in rade, when I saw the Billy Idol patch on herMost people assumed because her mom’s white and her dad’s black that she ive peace a chance, flower power, hippie parents and assuh all that’s true, what they didn’t realize was that we knew and loved a hell of a lot more music than that

Bree has a passion for old southern rock, iddy over old school rap, folk, and any and all rock So when she tells ood, I take her word for it

"When do they come on?"

"Ten, I think" She looks at Jessie for verification and he nods

He puts his aretting drinks What do you want?"

"Rurees

"Psh I can get it, wo his hands through his dirty blonde hair

"Mhs

I laugh "Please We both knohat you’re going to do with that boy as soon as we get ho a ape at her And then I squeal and jump up and down as tears come to my eyes Jessie’s been in love with her pretty much from the moment I introduced the their relationshipHe’s never pushed her and it looks like it finally paid off

Her hands shoot out and stopdeal out of it"