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“What do you think I said?” Without taking his gaze off love box and pulled out a baseball cap “Looks like the restroo Why couldn’t you have forgotten too?”
He just looked at aze captive, unsrees
“I’ll be right back,” I said, fingers fued to unbuckle the stupid thing, heart galloping inside otten crazy heavy toward the end It had caught as, that he’d chosen s And it ht
“Wait” He rifled aner aviator shades and handed them to me “You’re famous now too, remember?”
“My butt is”
He almost smiled He fit the baseball cap to his head and rested an arht there, in all its glory It was pink around the edges and some of the letters had small scabs on them I wasn’t the only one permanently marked by this
“See you in a bit,” he said
“Right” I opened the door and slowly cli on my ass in front of him must be avoided at all costs
I saw to the necessities then washed irl in the restroom mirror looked wild-eyed and then soe control onany and all atte control Me, my life, all of it seemed to be in a state of flux That shouldn’t have felt as strangely good as it did
When I got back he was standing by the Jeep, signing an autograph for a couple of guys, one of as busy doing an enthusiastic air guitar perforhed and clapped him on the back and they talked for a couple of , chatting to theuys If you could keep this quiet for a couple of days I’d appreciate it, hey? We could do with a break frorinned at ratulations You’re way prettier in person than in your pictures”
“Thanks” I waved a hand at the what else to do
David winked at er door for me to hop in
The otherpictures David ignored hied around to the other side of the vehicle He didn’t speak till ere back out on the road
“It’s not far now,” he said “We still going to Monterey?”
“Absolutely”
“Cool”
Hearing David talk about our first s That conversation had aroused ht … I don’t think the possibility had occurred toand so There was more to the story Much more David’s reluctance to answer certain questions made me wonder
I wanted answers But I needed to tread carefully