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"What’s up?" he asked

"Met tickets for Co harder and harder every year I’d alanted to go…so the iiven ht never colanced up at hihts were constant greed to shove to the back of e were very unaware of their own mortality unless, like me, they were forced to face the possibility their own iiven Adam’s own history, he was all too aware of it It haunted us like a poltergeist that we tried to ignore Si" took on new " to see a certain iven a fifteen percent chance of actually not er just a figure of speech I cleared ain

"I can hook you up with a pass to Comic-Con," he said "But I’iven your status as a blogger"

I laughed "You overestis"

"But GameGlomerate hasn’t, apparently, because they want to buy you out"

I shrugged "It’s weird I was never desperate to go, unlike Alex or s to do before I’--‘things I really gotta do someday’ list…" I corrected myself ive you one of the tickets assigned to Draco You can take the place of one of the interns One less silly idiot I have to deal with on the trip"

"I shouldn’t--" I sighed I no longer worked for his company

"What if I said I really want you to come?" He cracked a smile

I smiled back "In that case…why not? Life’s too short"

He frowned and turned away Ah, there it was--another gremlin had popped up to replace the one we’d cleverly avoided I sighed Instead of pretending not to notice his reaction, Imy head on his shoulder "You hate it when I say that, don’t you?"

He was silent, then glanced at me and kissed the top of my head "Yeah, I do"