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After about an hour of trying to study for ive up I am no more prepared than I hen I first cracked the book open I pull out h my contacts, and press to dial Casey

"What up, fool?" he answers I hear Eli in the background It’s a Sunday night--they’re playing video ga ht and stared at et up and leave the house

"Dude, co better," Casey says

"I don’t really feel like hanging out with you and Eli and playing video ga a foot on the table

"Cool, and bring us sandwiches," he says, hanging up

I sh I don’t want to, and he kneould And I’ll probably have a better tiood like that

After a quick pass through our kitchen, I decide I’ll have to stop by work because we’re out of everything I catch a gli on the counter in the corner I grab it onby the metal trashcan by the curb I toss it in, then hop in o to the store and et to Casey’s, he and Eli haveone of those reality shows on MTV I toss him his sandwich and put three more on the table in front of us Casey looks up at ers

"I knohat you like, but I wasn’t sure what Eli liked Imy body flop into the yellow easy chair that I helped Casey move in when he found it on the side of the road It’s quite possibly thechair in the world It’s also theforward and picking up a second sandwich

"Dude, I made one the way you like it," I say as he unwraps both sandwiches in his lap

"Every sandwich you ry, yo I’ a bite of the roast beef first, then wiping the odda for two," I say He laughs with hisfrom his lips, then flips me off, and continues toforward and picking up the re two sandwiches He opens one a little then looks up at me

"That one’s ham, the other one’s turkey," I say

"Cool," he says He picks the harab the turkey frory We’re watching a guy on TV try to put out a fire on his pants Casey finds it hysterical

"Oh hey, since you’re here Can you see what’s wrong with this?" he says, shoving a stack ofit to er over the top, then licks his finger clean

"It’s a the top of his laptop clean with the bottom of my shirt Casey is incredibly s

"Eli finds that offensive," Eli says, his oes back to the guy on fire, who is now sitting in a baby pool filled ater How is thison with it?" I say, flipping it open and noticing the hundreds of s that seem to have taken over his screen "Ahhhh, nevermind Virus"

"I think it’s those porn sites," he says through his bite

"You think?" I laugh I switch lad I have so to distract me for the next thirty minutes

By the time Eli and Casey are done with their food, I have his co hi the amount ofhis noorking computer over to him on the coffee table

"Beautimus," he says

I lean back in the duto the door, slipping on a pair of shoes without his socks I don’t get how people can do that It just makes shoes smell