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I’d tied up the wildfloith a pretty ribbon and took therave There, I removed the wilted bouquet that Helena had set there the week before and replaced it with my fresh bundle

I passed an hour in quiet conte out loud Soraveside If anyone ever overheardto my dead boyfriend But I liked to think that, wherever he was, he could hear me That he could still feel our connection the way I felt it That he’d know that Imyself in self-pity, I cursed what a rotten fate it was to find your soulically short I la to live an entire lifetime with him only as a et to Brock was a plaque in a green lahere I lay flowers every so often

My thoughts drifted to last night, when I did a Tarot reading for ht decision by leaving to travel with the Faire at the end of June

I drew the Fool How appropriate How me

Not because I was foolish, but because of what the Fool represented--a wanderer, an adventurer A person who listened to the wind and did not set down roots in any one place

The card showed aup toward the radiant sun He was stepping precariously near the edge of a cliff, a happy dog clipping at his heels Ready to start a brand new adventure

I felt that also and tried to ignore any of the other pangs at the back ofAlex, my other friends And for so lips had popped up, too, before I’d forced the memory of our kiss fro to it--the feel of Williaainst the back of my head, the way my body had heated instantly from the contact I couldn’t not think about it

With a sigh of frustration, I turned on one of y podcasts to listen to on the way ho roo a to-do list for the week and checking et too close to Williauring out when I could sandwich in hly et it back before, I was even ht to Serbia possible

Alex sank down in a chair opposite me and plopped a foil container of food in front of my face The delicious aroma of Lupe’s enchiladas swirled around irlfriend I invited soht and we’re watchin’ Doctor Who and drinkin’ tequila"

In spite of the siren’s song--otherwise known as Alex’s ain 7 p practice

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Her eyebrows rose "Fun He’ll know everyone Heath, Kat, Mia and Ada over, too"

I forked a bite straight froue andlike a ht you’d lost your rinned and pointed to her forehead "Loco como un zorro"

"Crazy like Zorro?"

"Like a fox And we both know I’ in her sh cheekbones She had a rebel stripe of pink running through her almost-black hair Her oh-so-traditional mo her ground and keeping it "You are If I swung that way, you’d be in trouble"