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"Jamie, I-"

"Victor, ere you in London?" she asks, still staring away fro pause, closing her eyes, just the word "Please?"

Breathing in, answering without hesitation, I say, "I was sent to look for you"

A long pause, during which she stops kicking at the sheets "By who, Victor?"

"By afor you"

Ja her brsts with a towel "What did you say?" With a trearette

I breathe in "A man named Palakon offered me azing at me maybe for the first ti you back to the States," I sigh

"This-" She stops, checks herself "This was in the script? This Palakon was in the script?"

"I don’t know anymore," I say "I’ve lost touch with hi for"My parents? That’s crazy, Victor Oh god, Victor-"

"He offered h

"To findherself "To findabout?"

"I had to get out of town, I had to-"

"Victor, what happened?"

"I came on the QE2," I say "He offered irl I went to school with I wasn’t even going to co to Paris with her" I stop, not knohere to go with this