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“Are you the drummer?” I asked with a sniff
For so over, clutching at his belly Maybe he was on drugs or soantic asylu this place in check
“What is your proble a step away frolasses fell off, clattering on the asphalt He swiped the at all Let’s get out of here I’ve got a house at the beach We’ll hide out there Co the jerks on the front steps a lethal look “Why would you help ”
“Oh, really? Why would you think that?”
“You wouldn’t like le answer I’ve had all , why stop now?”
He sotten drunk and out of controlto snare hihtest bit interested in e It was never even on his radar before So the fact that heCo”
Easy for him to say, his life hadn’t been skewered by a rock star
“I need to get et cornered by theers beckoning for et out of here”
I puton, this song isn’t about his dog dying or sohed
“I so aered at the opposite end of the couch as Tim McGraw let rip about his kind of rain on the flat screen TV taking up the opposite wall “Why do they all wear such big hats, do you think? I have a theory”
“Shush”
The way these people lived blew my tiny little mind Mal, short for Malcolm, lived in a place at the beach that was lass It was ae like the place in the hills, but awe-inspiring just the same My Dad would have been in raptures over the minimalism of it, the cleanliness of the lines or so a friend in my time of need
Mal’s house was clearly a bachelor pad-slash-den of iniquity I’d had a vague notion tole speck of food in the house Beer filled the fridge and vodka the freezer Oh, no, there was a bag of oranges used as wedges to go with shots of vodka, apparently He’d ruled out touching those His super slick coffee ht He even had decent beans I ed hi three cups in the space of an hour, I felt a lot more like my old well-planned, caffeinated self
Mal dialed for pizza and atched TV late into the night Mostly he found his joy in : ood-naturedly We couldn’t go outside because a couple of photographers aiting on the beach I felt bad about it but he’d just shrugged it off
“What about this song?” he asked “You like this?”