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I’ up with Rowe I think I knew this was an a But now, I’ with easy girls who don’t want attachments, don’t require work, and don’t fuck with ets, the more she comes into focus She’s beautiful

"Oh fuck no!" I shout Yeah, soood for e and her two girlfriends--mostly because they have the bottle of liquor

"Fill ’er up," I say, holding e She holds her hand over the bottle and stares at et the ha for

"You better fix whatever that is," she says, pointing to her sister with a swirling finger "She hasn’t said a word to od, if I find out you did anything that warrantsyour dick off, don’t think I won’t"

Here’s the thing: when chicks make threats like that, it instantly incites a cheine whatever it is they said, and then we feel it However juvenile it e will actually cut h of a threat for hly effective

"Your sister lost e will have some clue what this means and cut ibberish though, because she just bunches her nose at et a new one," she says with her signature eye-roll She was made to do that It makes ht ru with the warmth Yeah, I should cut iving , and he toldthis chance, too, blowing right through it with one e’s friends findI focus on thee is a little drunk too She er threatening to cutShe’s not having a good ti? My cup is half full…orthe flat Coke around in circles in my cup--no more bubbles from carbonation, only the hot burn of ru, just stay here, see how the giggling plays out Maybe wake up in the roin with one of her spikey heels

But Cass is leaving And she looks like she’s going to cry And…

I did that

"I’m out of here,the rest ofmyself to the dirt where , and she doesn’t run She’s not running My head islook sideways, and I’reen alien says, but she’s not running This is good

"Hey," I say,slowly, no rush--nowhere to go

"Hey," she says, and she sounds broken So daue suddenly feels fat I’h to know that I won’t be able to do this right, but I have to slide a rock in the door, keep it open, so I can fix this shit in the