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"Yeah, sorry about that You sure ca"

"Yeah I’m sorry about that, too"

"Not at all That was on Reyes, love Who will be here in a few ?"

I’d paused the video "Oh, you won’t believe this crap"

I replayed it, to his utter mortification "I’ve been alive for centuries, and I’ve never seen anything like that"

"Thank God that’s unusual I orried"

Reyes showed up and – instead of apologizing to our guest, the one he’d tried to beat senseless that ht to his apartment for a shower Osh was cool with that He sat and watched a game with Ubie and Swopes as Cookie cleared a space in my kitchen for the food when it arrived Gawd, she was handy I needed like three of her

Re she needed actual utensils, she ran back to her place to grab some No idea why plastic forks wouldn’t do Much less work involved later

"I have a joke for you," A dark hair hanging in tangles down her back

"Okay," I said, giving hersoda from a can "You kno you have a bun in the oven?"

I stifled a laugh "Yes Yes, I do"

"Okay, and you kno Reyes calls you Dutch?"

"Yes," I said, wondering where she was going with this

"Well, you’re like a Dutch oven Get it?" She giggled

"I get it," I said, giggling, too

"You’re still co-lutely"

She deflated "You don’t know anything about it, do you?"

"Sure I do" I see about a carnival Cookie may have mentioned it Or it may have been in that 747 I’d crashed into the toilet Meot when it is, exactly"

"Awesoled again "You’re such a bad liar"

Oh, o into rinned as her phone dinged with a text

"Quentin?" I asked, leading her that way

After a quick glance at Osh, who nodded a very cool acknowledgot in trouble today in shop"

"Uh-oh What’d he do?"