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I pinned her down "The game is called Fuck, Marry, Kill Not Kill, Kill, Kill"
"That’s brutal, Mia Damn…uh Fuck Leonard Marry Raj Kill Howard" And then she shuddered
I would have laughed, but I was already distracted by ain?" she asked
"Yeah…I’ out where the princess’s prison is located but every tiet wiped out I wish I had a healer…"
Kat looked at me like I was crazy "And what is Persephone, chopped liver? I’m one of the best healers on the server"
I stared at her for aso obvious If it had been a dog, would have bitten me in the ass "Uh, yeah, I suppose I could do the quest with other players…you think that’s okay?"
She shrugged "Uh Hell if I know Ask your boyfriend"
"Oh no, he doesn’t ever say a word about anything to do with the quest"
Kat wagged her eyebrows at me "You haven’t tried to use sexual favors to bribe hi it off It would be more like the other way around It seemed these days that I wanted it more than he did
"So, seriously, I’d need a tank, too" I said, referring to the common term for a character with a lot of life points who could stand in front of the "squishy" characters like ed," Kat said "Who else?"
"DPS" A character that could inflict a lot of dahed Why hadn’t it even occurred to roup in to help on the secret quest?
"Um Gee…maybe you were meant to ask for other people to help you, eh? Did that ever occur to you?"
I scratchedover my notes "No, it didn’t"
I frowned, kind of shocked by ht, I’d ask for their help And Adao along e were trying to do
And that’s exactly what I did…and that’s exactly what he did Over the course of the next little while, as wefriends helped ress in the quest
My life settled into a weird pattern of days I’d go to the hospital for a new round, sometimes surrounded by my friends Kat was there, and sometimes also Heath, Alex and Jenna William also shohen he could, but hospitals freaked him out so he wasn’t terribly happy about it Ada He just kind of hovered near o home Just him and me, and I’d be alone with hi put on the rack for my many sins Sometimes a nurse was there, too, on the first day, but Adam was there for every minute of it And it occurred toduring that tiht the work to the house and he’d spend an hour or tay fro anyway--and then be back bybetter, he’d pull twenty-hour days at the office until a few days before I was supposed to go in for another round Then we’d do so special or different, or just a walk on the beach or take a boat trip around the harbor Or friends would coame and eat pizza
My twenty-third birthday came and went It happened to fall on one of the days when I was still sick from che better, Ada our friends over But I was in little mood to celebrate Who kne many birthdays would cos between Adao back to noro back to?
Nowadays, he spent alhts
On one such day, a late eous weather, we sat on the back porch Adah so Between all that was going on withclearly, it was getting harder and harder toof the aardness of blogging about DE I’d gotten a lot of attention withthe quest A lot of readers were following e fro more andwith Adaame