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Mimi, on the other hand, was particular, but not with a specific look She went for overall size She liked herShe loved when they had to pick her up to kiss her, or stand her on a stool so they didn’t get neck cramps She liked herBecause she was small, she had a tendency to draw types that wanted to "protect" But girlfriend had been taking karate since she was a kid, and she needed no one’s protection She was a badass in a retro skirt

I was harder to pin down, but I knew hiraphy, I are I did have a tendency toward outdoorsy guys--lifeguards, scuba divers, rock clientleh money that I didn’t have to play mommy I’d spent a summer with a hotter-than-hell surfer who couldn’t afford his own peanut butter Even Micah’s round-the-clock orgas my AmEx to pay for his sex wax And his cell phone bill And his trip to Fiji that I wasn’t even invited on To the curb, surfer boy To the curb

I h Ahh, the days before O’s departure Round-the-clock orgash

"So, wait a minute, have you seen him since the hallway encounter?" Sophia asked after we’d ordered and I’d coroaned

Mily "He’s cute, isn’t he?"

"Daood He’s such an asshole!" I slammed my hand down on the table so hard I lance, and I showed the, he’s in the hallith Purina, kissing on her! It’s like so over there, and I want no part of it!" I said, chewing furiously onthem the story for the third time

"I can’t believe Jillian didn’t warn you about this guy," Sophiaher croutons around on her plate She was on a no-bread thing again, terrified of the five pounds she claimed she’d put on in the last year She was full of it, but there was no arguing with Sophia when she set her uy," I reported "He must’ve moved in since the last time she was there I mean, she hardly ever stayed in that place They just kept it so they always had a place to stay in the city According to the neighbors, he’s only been in the building a year or so And he travels all the time" As I spoke, I realized I’d couy

"So has he been wall banging at all this week?" Sophia asked

"Relatively quiet, actually Either he really listened to hborly, or his dick finally broke off in one of theht medical attention," I said, a little too loudly The table of business pretty closely as they all choked a little just then and shifted in their seats, perhaps crossing their legs in unwitting sy of Jillian, you guys are invited out to the house in Sausalito next weekend for their housewar party," I informed them

They both iuy we all agreed on Whenever we’d plied Jillian with enough liquor, we’d confess our crush to her and make her tell us stories about hiet an extra martini into her…well, let’s just say it was nice to know sex continued to be worth doing even after your man ell into his forties The one about Benjaa Room at the Fairmont Hotel? Wow She was a lucky woet ready at your place, like the old days?" Mied our ears

"Yes, yes, that’s fine, but noor we’ll leave your ass with the bill," Sophia scolded as Mi

After lunch, Mimi walked toward her next appointment around the corner, and Sophia and I shared a cab

"So, naughty dreareat delight of the cab driver

"Eyes on the road, sir," I instructed as I caught hihts drift to the dreaht for the past week I, on the other hand, had not--ratcheting up nore the O, I was okay Now that I was treated to dreaht, O’s absence was evenon top of the dresser, safer with ood, but he’s such an asshole!" I exclai ," she added, looking atJust looking at you You’re awfully worked up over sohed, looking out the

"You’re poking me"

"I am not"

"Seriously, what the hell is in your pocket, Mi her head away as Mih her hair

I s up irls got here, so I’d been spared the full treatment Mimi fancied herself some kind of beauty school dropout, and if she could’ve opened a shop in her bedrooht

Mimi produced a brush fro to tease With the brush, that is

We were pre-partying just like we did at Berkeley, right down to the frozen daiquiris Although we’d upgraded to the good alcohol and freshly squeezed lime juice, it still made us a little hyper and slaphappy

"Coht! You don’t want towith flat hair, do you?" Miet soue--you just let her do it

"I’irls are on display, Prince Char won’t even notice I have hair," Sophia les Then over our laughter, I heard voices froot up off the bed and went closer to the here I could hear better This time instead of just Simon, there were two other distinctly , but suddenly Guns N’ Roses cah to

"What the hell is that?" Sophia snapped, looking wildly around the rooed, secretly enjoying being welcole I put a headband low on my forehead and did Axl’s crab dance back and forth, ht of Mimi and the scorn of Sophia

"No, no, no--that’s not it, fool," Sophia scolded over the hter as Sophia and I Axl-battled Until, of course, Sophia started to ed Sophia juet away fro the lyrics now and dancing wildly Miave in, and all three of us danced likeunderneath us, and I realized it was banging ainst the wall--Simon’s wall

"Take that! And that! And a little of…that! No one’s banging on my walls, huh? Hahahahaha!" I shrieked crazily as Mimi and Sophia watched in amazement Sophia climbed off the bed, and she and Mihed and I thu ain

The music cut off suddenly, and I dropped like I’d been shot Mimi and Sophia clasped their hands over each other’sThe frenzy in the roohing in the back of church You couldn’t stop, and you couldn’t not stop