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Sawyer Angotti is not the kind of guy most people would say is hot, but Trey and I have the same taste in men, which is sometimes convenient and sometimes a pain in the ass Sawyer has this street casual look where he could totally be a clothes model, but if he ever told people he was one, they’d be like, "Seriously? No way" Because his lance he’s really ordinary, but if you study hiets irls and probably customers, too I mean the war shy or self-conscious That one uyexists Ar the world But I’ve seen his other side a million times I’ve been in love with hiether at indoor recess in first grade

Hoas I supposed to know back then that Saas the enemy? I didn’t even know his last name And I didn’t know about the faated me after they went to my first parent-teacher conference and found out that I "played ith others" and "had a nice friend in Sawyer Angotti," you’d have thought I’d given away great-grandfather’s last weapon to the eneht around the ti weird

All I kneas that I wasn’t allowed to play cheetahs and bears with Sawyer anymore I wasn’t even supposed to talk to him

But I still did, and he still did, and ould meet under the slide and trade suckers froister I would bring hiht me butterscotch, which we never had in our restaurant I’d do anything to get Sawyer Angotti to give ain

I have a notebook fro and overdraotti" and "JuleSawyer forever" I even o for our conjoined names in that one Too bad it looks n and an a secretlyour parents

And back then I’dmy pilloas Sawyer Me andone another, and I’d is and pigeons and little crying kids I’d touch his cheek and push his hair back, and he’d look at rin of his, and then he’d lean towardit, and his lips would touch mine, and thenHe’d be et And no matter how much our parents tried to keep us apart, he’d never break rade started, when it was tiet our books, his father was there with hi terrible

Without thinking, I smiled and waved at my friend, and he sht after not seeing him for the whole summerand his father saw rabbed Sawyer’s arlance My father gru half-sentence threats under his breath

And that was the end of that

I don’t knohat his father said or did to hier rade is the worst year of your life was right Sawyer turned our friendship off like a faucet, but I can’t help it--my faucet of love has a really bad leak

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Trey parks the truck as close to the Field Museu since the weather is actually sunny and not too freezing and windy, people rab a quick eneric stuff inside the tourist trap

Before we open thefor business, we set up Trey checks the rate fresh mozzarella into tiny, easily meltable nubs It’s a simple operation--our winter truck specialty is an Italian bread boith spicy mini meatballs, sauce, and cheese The truth is it’s delicious, even though I’m sick to death of the deep-dish Chicago-style, not that thin crap that Angotti’s serves Authentic, authschmentic The tourists want the hearty, crusty, saucy stuff with slices of sausage the diath of your forear