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“Tease”

I flipped hihter followed irl with a boyfriend definitely should not feel

“You doin’ okay?” Ally asked e over to a customer

My shift at Wilde’s Place had started two hours ago, and I’d workedexperience, so it was no big deal, and the customers there were a lot e bar

“Everything is going great” I threw her a smile

“Your boyfriend gonna be here soon?”

The thought of Gary caused a prickle of guilt I’d technically arranged souy It didn’t see myself distance from Michael made me realize how shitty what I’d done was I’d flirted with another guy, and I’d arranged to see hiet those butterflies or how I still felt them when I thou

ght about the stranger I didn’t have those with Gary, as much as I cared about him

But was Michael worth ruining what I had with Gary? My boyfriend had called ht free, so he was bringing him to Wilde’s Place to meet me Sully was Gary’s best friend, but he was a cop and hadn’t had a lot of free time lately He’d been with Boston PD for nearly two years so he was now only getting a regular shift pattern that would allow him to see his buddies more

I was a little nervous about rown up together, and while Gary screwed around a lot, Sully was always there to get him out of scrapes From what I knew about my boyfriend, he’d definitely been the irresponsible one in that friendship Until me, Gary had only been interested in casual sex, whereas he used to rib Sully for being a one-woe to be a lawyer, but his family didn’t have the money to send him, so he took his police exam at nineteen, was a cadet with the Boston PD before he could apply for the police academy at twenty-one, and he became a cop like his old man

Gary, on the other hand, had flitted froht, left, and center, until his uncle took hi with me

If Gary and his best friend knehat I’d done today, they’d hate me

But I didn’t do anything, I argued with myself Not really

“Hey, gorgeous”

My boyfriend’s fahts, and I handed over the beer toat me