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God, I can still taste him He’s all over me and I don’t know if I can stand it The words he said, how my body reacted when he touched me, when he kissed h hell and back and with one glimpse of him and a fehispered words, I’ I can’t get enough of He’shonest withto kick that particular habit anyti in the corner closest to the door by herself T must’ve left and I feel like immediate crap

“Are you okay?” she asks me as I approach

Jen’s low-spoken question pullss” She studies aze careful “I heard about what they said They’re assles, Fable Don’t let the about how much of a slut I am In front of my neorker and potential friend “Maybe what they said is true” I squarefor defiant and probably failing e?”

I think I could like this girl Could possibly consider her a friend, and I don’t remember the last tiuys stroll out of the roo stares as they pass The birthday boy is the only one who shoots us a seetic look when he approaches, then slaps a one-hundred-dollar bill into my palm and another one in Jen’s si a littlethe party elsewhere This place has turned into a drag” Ty stops directly in front ofhis beer breath in ust “Wanna coood ti Ty

And , I tilted lares at us for a long, quietus co her head “I can’t believe he’s so…”

“Blatant? Rude?”

“All that, wrapped up in disgusting sli up the roo A coer assles are usually the really good-looking ones, I’ve noticed”

She has a valid point

Colin strides into the roo forto?”

I’m taken aback by his question, the tone of his voice “What does itus, I can see her out of the corner ofthis conversation with her as a witness

“Jen, could you give us a few minutes of privacy? Why don’t you help out in the bar for a bit?” Colin suggests, his gaze never leaving mine

She leaves without a word, and we’re alone The noise fro for the axe to fall He’s going to fire me, I can sense it And on the very day I finally felt coave notice at La Salle’s

I bet I could beg forold boyfriends sniffing around my restaurant staff in a proprietary manner,” Colin says

His words startle the crap out of uy I caught you with outside He toldcousted by what Ty said toabout hiether outside Drew’s ar me “Not anymore,” I finally say because as far as I’ether We never really were

But Drew said he was my boyfriend? This…baffles me

“Well, maybe you should explain that to hi around outside Alust on Colin’s face is clear He doesn’t want to deal witharound his business Not that I can blame him

I feel like an absolute screwup

“I’o see if he’s still around? I can tell hiliet rid of hio but he stopshold of my arm before I exit the room “If this becoht?”

I nod, ehis I want hiuy They’re so not worth it “I understand I’entles, as does his touch, and he slowly releases his hold on my arm “I like you, Fable I don’t want to have to lose you because of your personal problems”