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“I guess I’”

He nodded slowly, leaning in until our noses almost brushed The perfect intiainst et close to him had never disappeared No matter how I’d tried to shut it down Love and heartbreak s you’d try to tell yourself to ht,” he said “Anything I can help you with?”

“No I just wanted to check you were really here, I think”

“I’, Evelyn”

“No I think I get that now I guess I can be a little slow sos I just wasn’t sure, you knoith everything’s that happened But I still love you” Apparently I was back to blurting crap out whenever it occurred to h, it was okay I was safe “I do”

“I know, baby The question is, when are you going to co, you know? It hurt so much when it fell apart last time”

He nodded sadly “You leftI’ve ever experienced”

“I had to go, but also … part of it wasto hurt you like you’d hurt ain, but I didn’t feel like I could “I don’t want to be vindictive like that, not with you, not ever again”

“I said so We’re just going to have to forgive each other and let it go”

“You didn’t write a song about it, did you?”

He looked away

“No! David,” I said, aghast “You can’t That was such a terrible night”

“On a scale of one to ten how pissed would you be exactly?”

“Where one is divorce?”

Hehis feet between mine There was no more than a hair’s breadth between us I’d never catch my breath at this rate Never

“No,” he said, his voice soft “You don’t even re married, so divorce or annulment or what the fk ever is not on It never was I just told the lawyers to keep looking busy for the last et to mention that?”

“Yeah, you did” I couldn’t help but smile at that “So what’s one?”

“One is now It’s this, us living apart and being fking miserable without each other”

“That is pretty horrible”

“It is,” he agreed

“Is the song a headliner or are you just going to shove it in somewhere and hope no one notices? It’s just a B-side or soht? Unlisted and hidden at the end?”

“Let’s pretend we’d been talking about s the name of the album”

“One of the about is going to be about us?”