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I realize that I’ her than I a their way toward the entrance of the towering Honda Center, home of the Anaheim Ducks So I squeeze her hand back

"Thank you for your show of support So far it’s working"

"We should have a code word"

"A code word?"

"So you can tell reat"

"Can’t I just tell you I’s "Yeah But a code word could be areat, you can say ‘pickles’ And when you really, really feel like you need to leave, you can say ‘relish’"

"I like relish"

"It doesn’telse if you like"

By this tilass doors that lead inside Sadly, I have to let go of her hand to pull the tickets out ofloo hard to breathe the way she showed h, because she showed me and she seems to believe in it What does help is that we are headed in a direction thatthat would be the case

Jenna looks down at our tickets stubs to deter bucks I’ve never sat in the good seats before"

"You couy as into hockey He shared season tickets, so I came with him a lot"

As alk to the other side of the arena in search of our section, I’s about what she just said I can’t help but wonder who the guy was that she dated It wasn’t Doug As far as I know, he isn’t into hockey, and she didn’t date hi the next to each other at RMRAinside er with Doug But I hate thoseand not ry anyway

"You’ve had a lot of boyfriends?" I ask It surprises me the way I blurted it out I’ve learned over the years to keep my mouth shut and to force myself to think about what I say before it comes out of my mouth About half the tih whenoff irrational jealousy

"Um I’ve had a few"

"Alex says you don’t date people for very long"

Her eyes fix on the ceiling "Alex is overly critical ofhabits She doesn’t really understand"

Well, that makes two of us I don’t understand, either

She stops and turns to me "This is our section Are you ready?"