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She aggressively shoves a fry into her e," she says around it
"There was also celery and string cheese And I made you come four times Four Do you even bother to do that with your box of toys beneath your bed?"
London chews on her straw, and then says, "What makes you think I have a box of toys undereven more hotly now
"You deny it?" I ask quietly
She coed sohs "So technically Aubrey did give you car head"
She didn’t--she sucked on ently pried her hand away and walked her to her doorstep But London’s already got her mind made up, so why bother?
"You didn’t even care that I called you by the wrong naht!" I fire back "Why does it et car head?"
Her eyes go wide "It doesn’t ot car head It ht, and you insist on"--she estures at the table and then in the air--"food"
I cough out an incredulous sound "I didn’t follow you here I’ to be polite You would prefer that I say a simple hello and take my nachos back to my place? Who’s the ives me an opportunity to admire the definition of her jawline, the smooth line of her throat Her hair is sun-bleached and I can see a few grains of sand clinging to the nape of her neck What is going on in that head of hers? I can’t even begin to guess
"You make me insane," she says quietly, more to herself than to me, as she stabs a fry into some salsa
It hits me in an instant "I think you don’t like how"You can’t fit me into your Barfly Box of Shame You want to dismiss me as a dickhead player, but then you think I’ me eat nachos"
London turns her face back up toanother chip into ht now"
She leans in, studyingtooay tooin silence for a minute, but I can feel her eyes onmy mouth on my napkin
"I need to head ho there So if I should gamble here
"I live about three blocks away," I re her plate to the trash can before turning to et to kiss my ladybird"
LONDON’S COOL IS back in place when she pulls up at the curb behind my car I watch her climb out and look around uess I didn’t give ht to the fact that you live alone in a house in La Jolla"
Tilting my head, I ask her, "Where do you live?"