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We located a long stretch of table with two unoccupied chairs A few people sat on the other end of it, drinking beer and playing dominoes

"Want rasshopper Give it a few irls alone in a baron’t be alone for long And then we can drink for free"

Sure enough, withina pitcher of beer They offered us some plastic cups and poured us drinks Annie bea with the usual conversation

Are you a student?

What’s your major?

Oooh, you have a tattoo? Show me

I was bored Neither one of theht light People eventually got up frouys to sit down beside us

I forced the s the bar With every ned ht

"Are you looking for souy in a knit cap besideand peeked out of the sides He was cute in a Hollister kind of way

I shookyou"

I offered a wan s eek"

That sent us into a conversation about what it was I was doing over the summer I had to hand it to hioal of Dr Chase’s research

My gaze still flickered around the room; I couldn’t help an Mulvaney Fine No maybes But that didn’t er obstacles every day I would, too

Of course, this conviction was blown out of the water when I suddenly spotted hi near the bar He didn’t look like he orking A posse of girls surrounded him One kept her hand planted firmly on his chest as she talked, and the totally unacceptable urge to pull her off him by her hair seized ue, disappointed in myself

I wasn’t the jealous type I never had been I hadn’t even been jealous when Harris started studying long hours in the library with the girl he left uess I hadn’t cared enough to be concerned, but I cared now and it sucked

When her hand drifted down his stoot worse as I watched her red fingernails stroke low, snatching hold of the hem of his shirt He s when he was all teasing grins

I wondered what she had said tohair over a sleek, tanned shoulder, leaving no obstruction to the view of her ae

Comparatively, I felt like a minister’s wife in my pink wraparound blouse with a sash that tied slaring holes into Logan because suddenly he lifted his head and scanned the rooaze and looked back at the guy beside , I tried to look really interested in what he was saying I hated that Logan caughtto know if he was still watching ain