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"Okay, okay…" she slurs I could always hold uy? I mean, you could have just coeye contact At the ti back to live with Cass felt i with Houston--I think the impossible with Cass may have been smarter Harder, perhaps, but definitely sthe e crowd is usually a rad students et drunk Add onto that the really creepy old guys who are waiting to give a girl a ride home, and it’s a bad mix I may be drunk, but I’ll never be that drunk

The line for the wo down the hallway and out the back door By the tiet to the end, I’ in the alley I coversleeve and retrace my path back inside Theline here

I look around, then duck inside There’s only one stall, but I’ve been in worse bathroo, washinga fistful of towels to turn off the faucet and open and close the door as I leave the restroo at hiut

"Fuck, who does that?" I say, holdingwildly My head is spinning, and it takes s Part of it’s the shots, butthe shit scared out of uy they’re living with? I knoho does that?" he grunts, still a little out of breath

"I hit you hard," I say, now noticing the tightness in my knuckles I’ers in and out, and they tingle

He brings his gaze up, his hand flat against the wall next to me, and for a second his eyes pause on mine

"Yeah…you did," he says

A fewat hiood being this close to hiood He se beneath his arm, when his lip curves up on one side

His hand is still next tothe wall I clear my throat and adjust my posture Houston’s head falls forward and he pushes back, stepping in the opposite direction, clearing roood!

Iwith my sister, when I notice Houston is only a step or two behindfast, I lose rip on ht up looking at therip

"I’ at tables near us to turn and look at me I stretch my arms out in a WTF stance, and they all turn around, back to their own conversations "You!" I point at hi him to be shocked, to start in with his defensive ain--that sa dizzy in the hallway by the bathroom "You were not invited I disinvited you!"

"Yeah, I’ orders fro his ar his chest And then I see his arain Until he dips his head lower, catchingme out of this stupid puppy-crush I seem to suddenly have on his hot arms

Shit He has hot arms

I’ it

"Dude, youpast us toward the table we’ve taken over in the corner of Sally’s He begins to pour a beer for Houston, but stops short of full when Houston holds his hand up

"Thanks, s," he says, and I laugh under s, like a kid His head twists fast to look at me, and his eyebrow cocks