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You tell FallenOne, "Everyone’s gotta lose it so?"
FallenOne tells you, "Pun intended, I hope?"
I laughed That "sounded" more like the Fallen I knew We chatted for a few ame zone--the place where our characters were located, the Misty Caverns, in order to go hunt bad guys together Little more was said about the auction or our personal lives after that Fallen didn’t proht and with no sht be the end of our regular ga relationship
Ourto play matchmaker for Fallen and me for months and she hadn’t been subtle about it And me, well, I wasn’t sure how I felt More confused than ever, I guess
After a few hours, a few hundred oozing undead and several quest rewards, Fallen decided to log off I kept going--a fors I should be doing and thinking about The question of Drake, Mr CEO of the ga o for a run later that evening
But I never got there because less than a half hour after Fallen logged off, nized that knock at ot up and jerked open the door
My two besties--besides, Heath, of course--stood in the door, shoulder to shoulder I grinned at Alex, the daughter ofdark hair pulled back in a ponytail She had beautiful olive skin and earing a tight T-shirt with a printed-on bowtie and the motto Bowties Are Cool across her ample chest
Jenna, her best friend and roohtest blond hair I’d ever seen on a person out of childhood--coeted beside her
"Password?" I delanced at each other and in unison they chanted, "I airinned at our favorite quote from Captain Mal Reynolds of Firefly
Jenna sidled into the roo ahead of Alex She held a Tupperware container that rattled and said, "Can we come in?"
As she was already erated sigh Alex grabbed ave"We are doing a Dr Who otta coame We shoot tequila every ti when he says ‘I’hed I loved Dr Who but I kneasn’t up for that Not this week "I’ve got roup--"
Alex stomped her foot and the sound of it echoed on the floor belohich was the ceiling of her e "Come on, Mia! There will be cute boys there Cute boys who love Dr Who"
I snorted "Yeah, and they’ll be even cuter after the beer goggles are on"
Jenna shook her box again and it rattled as she plopped down on my half broken-down couch--the fabric was shredded and patched with duct tape "Okay, so you don’t like to party We get it We’ve been asking you for eons and Dragons gaain "I’m sorry, Jen, I have to work a double shift on Saturday"
She raised her pale--almost invisible--brows at me and popped off the cover of her plastic container "You think you’re a ga around on your keyboard, hunched over your a her palm open to display some tiny three-dimensional plastic pieces of all sizes and colors Some were shaped like pyraeht All of them were covered with plain, white numbers
"That little tiny pyramid looks cool," I conceded
Her face fell I’d somehow displeased her "This is a d-four--a four-sided die It is perfectly balanced to give me the perfect chance for a completely random one-in-four roll every tian polishing the shapes "You don’t get to use cool stuff like this for cohed "I’m sorry I promise I’ll come soon But this test haselse but studying and working so I can eat in order to keep myself alive so I can continue to stress about this damn test"