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I’ Laundry at the laundroed hi Care if I join you?

Sure, why not? As I’d fervently pointed out to Milo, I wasn’t sexually attracted to Jack, so what did I care if he sawlike this?

Cool I’ll be there in a few

Do you even knohere it’s at? I waited ten minutes for him to reply to that, but then I realized that he was already on his way

Somehow, he’d knohere I was at, just like he knewhi

The bell chimed above the laundromat door a few minutes later, and I didn’t even have to look up to knoas Jack There was an Indian girl a few seats down froasped when he came in

"Hey, there" Jack plopped on the seat next toa Space Invaders hoodie and a pair of Dickies shorts His sandy hair looked crazier than norhtly atsince stopped being accusatory When I asked his, I was just curious andno answer

"You told me where you were" He looked at

"No, I didn’t I said I was at a laundromat There’s like a million in this city," I explained

"This one is the closest to your house, and you don’t drive" His response surprisedodd or vaguely psychic about it He turned to watch the washing s underneath hi haul "You knoe have washers and dryers at my house"

"I’ on his plural use of washer and dryer Knowing them, they probably had one for every room, like the bathrooms and fireplaces and balconies

"You could’ve asked to come over and do laundry," Jack said "Mae was really taken with you"

"I really enjoyed her, too" That was all I was going to say on that subject The last thing I wanted to do was talk to Jack about Peter It felt wrong somehow to admit any attraction to him to Jack "That doesn’t explain how you knehereto do here you live"

"No, I mean, do you always knohere I’m at?" I looked up at him, and he shook his head

"I’m not psychic"