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Indulging in the first creamy bite, I tried to pretend that the events of the past few hours hadn’t happened The problem was that I wore a constant reminder of it on my left hand I sat onto pull it off My finger was getting sore fro with it so much

After only a few bites of ice crea the arrival of more customers I heard

"Hello there sugar," a deep voice drawled froe to turn around and instead took another bite

"Oh, come on now, I know you heard me"

I bristled as I heard a chair scrape the floor Great He was going to try to sit with oing to work

"Listen, I’m not in the mood--" I faltered when I saw the hulk of a y hair and a worn out t-shirt, the guy wasn’t a pretty sight I hoped my usual evasion tactics worked this time A quick survey made it clear he wasn’t alone Two other men stood behindsized up

"You were saying?" His wry s baby" My eyes darted toward the voice, and I noticed a pair of incredibly dirty jeans One of the friends now hovered beside et the da off"

I stood up and prepared to throw my ice cream in the trash "Excuse me"

"You are definitely not excused" The first reasy hair

"Hey Harriston, that’s what I think it is right?" My exit was blocked by the second man

"No question, I wonder what this little princess is doing out here alone Trevor is going to be happy with us, very happy with us"

"I need to go" The hairs stood up on the back ofback in New Orleans didn’t sound so bad

"You’re not going anywhere other than with us You sure you don’t want to finish that ice creainal man, as evidently named Harriston, smirked

I tried to hide uess we’ll be going" Harriston grabbedto co anywhere with you" I looked around, figuring that so on, but the cashier was eexpressions, I deduced they were part of the saroup

"Hey, leave me the hell--"

A dirty hand coveredto your rescue Bettercold andyou; you’re still worth a lot roughed up"