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Which is pretty fking intense
"Make your dirty jokes about Carter’s girlfriend," I say
Torres scoffs "Carter’s relationships go bad faster than the food in our fridge Like I’runts in response
"And you," Torres turns on et to the third syllable in the word relationship without having a seizure"
I roll my eyes and steer the conversation back where it ht Doesn’t matter to me whether I do it at hoe; so really, I’ular old Good Sahs and adds, "Just keep it s all those reporters how focused we are Don’t let anything get out of hand"
His eyes land on Torres first, then , he’s barking up the wrong tree I don’t do guilty I do what I want Life is too short and shitty to do anything else
"Oh, I’ out of hand, McClain Plan on it If you want to keep us out of trouble, I guess you’ll have to show up"
Torres grins "Yeah and bring--"
Carson hits hih to cut hi it up, and says, "I was gonna say chips, et back in the afternoon Apparently, I’ There’s a Slip ’N Slide in the front yard, and girls parading around in bikinis A few people are throwing around a Frisbee I head inside, ready to grab a beer and shove off the unease still clinging to o away That feeling that the other shoe is about to drop But with three years here under rab a beer froers around the cold neck of the bottle makes me feel a little more in my element The first time my brother stuck a beer in my hand I’d been ten, maybe eleven That’s my world What I know These days I have to concentrate to push that all away, to be the Silas Moore that people watch and respect and expect things fro a very good job because my roommate, Brookes, sweeps in beside rab a beer and he says, "You okay?"
Observant h lance, I’ll never know But I don’t like it
There’s a reason I doWhen you look like you don’t give a fk, people don’t ask you questions about how you’re feeling They don’t ask you questions, period
"Yeah," I reply, using the edge of the kitchen counter to pop the cap offpull, clink it with the bottle in his hand, and head out of the kitchen before he gets it in his head to play shrink