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"Jesus I’d say so"

"She wanted waters had been a source of amuseuilt ate into hiood friend But as the best time to tell your boss/friend you’d knocked up his sister? Certainly not when he was half-dead on his feet because of his own pregnant girlfriend’s ," he clarified "She doesn’t ask me to do this stuff, she just has to say, ‘Soone Really, I can’t wait for what she wants next It’s pretty daood" Ian cranked the tab on his can and drank in lieu of saying s? He wouldn’t know He’d do the sah, if she stayed with hi happen Dr Asshole no doubt had a mansion on a hill, and Ian expected her to shack up with hih

As he lowered the can fro on the counter next to the otten it there when he’d heated up a pizza pocket before they got so busy

Stepping around Brian, he retrieved it and checked the waiting text ive out "Jesus Oh, fking hell"

"Hey, what is it?" Brian asked

Ian looked the guy in the face and couldn’t lie to him anymore Not now Not about this "Your sister is at the hospital"

"Wait What?"

Ignoring him, Ian checked his watch "Fuck, that was alo Brian, o"

Brian caught his arodda you before she tells et into it now She’d told him she was headed to the ER but hadn’t let hih or as happening He had to get there now, and he would go through the guy if he had to Ian yanked away, looking Brian straight in his blue eyes There was no way of sugarcoating it "Your sister is pregnant It’scoe building behind that stare, but he hoped Brian was only trying to come to terms with the words he’d heard fall from Ian’s mouth like stones in a still pond That once he did, he’d relax and take it in stride

But then he spoke "I really, really want to knock you the fk out right now" So ive you a free shot later, o" He let his hand shoot out to clutch Brian’s shoulder, trying to insinuate his urgency into the words "She needs otta kno this would feel"

"All right You go" Brian’s voice vibrated with barely repressed fury, and his jaas tight enough that he could probably crunch glass with hison Then you andchat"

Ian didn’t look forward to that But whatever it took to get hiet away froet hioin’, dude?" Ghost yelled after hih the front of the parlor toward the door He didn’t stop to answer Brian could tell whoever he wanted Ian didn’t give a shit

He broke a few traffic laws getting to the hospital, using his bike to his advantage to weave through cars He wouldn’t do her any good dead, but every time he slowed down, his frustration reached a fever pitch Cussing a blue streak, he finallylot

People probably thought he was insane, and he was sure he scared the lady at the front desk to death She directed hiet him out of her face Another nurse pointed out the roo in the doorway like he’d hit an invisible wall