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Jane resigned herself to drinking her coffee and watching us talk She finished one cup and poured herself another

"How is it complicated?"

"It just is" Jack flashed ed to look very young, like he was fifteen, while si about his eyes They were very young and very old, at the same time

"How old are you?" I asked pointedly

Toeven reatest laugh in the universe It sounded so clear and perfect

"How old are you?" Jack countered, grinning atain

"Why does that even matter?" Jack asked "You want to know more"

"I’hed

"Twenty-four," Jack said with a wry s around with two seventeen year old girls?" I asked

In so for a twenty-four-year-old to be picking up two rando here, in the booth with hie," Jane interjected

"As I recall, if I hadn’t been around, you would’ve gotten yourself killed" He rested his ar anyway?"

"We were trying to get into a club, but et home," I said He looked atout of place on him, and then shook his head and refilled et into?" Jack asked, and added creaar to my drink He had yet to touch his own cup, but I decided not to say anything

"I don’t know," I shrugged I just let Jane drag o and hoped that by the end of the night, Idon? Clubbing it up?"