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“So,” I said, “what exactly are you here for, if you’re not here for my roommate?”

“I told you I’m here for you”

Oh God Remember Kevin remember Kevin remember Kevin –

“Well, here I ahim “What do you want?”

He dropped his eyes shyly to the ground, then looked back up at me in an innocent, unbelievably sexy way, his eyes low and beseeching me from under his eyebrows

“Would you go to a a in his voice

That took the wind out of my sails

I thought he was going to launch into another series of sexual innuendoes, and I was all ready to get furious and kick his ass out of there

But instead, he was asking me out

And really nicely, at that

“I… I have a boyfriend,” I said, my voice a little shaky

“I thought he was an ex-boyfriend”

Oh yeah

“He… we’re getting back together”

“Are you back together yet?”

“N-no, but… ill be”

“That a definite thing?”

I sed hard “Yeah”

“Okay… so you’ve got a ‘boyfriend,’” he said, putting ‘air quotes’ around the ith his fingers He shrugged and smiled “The invitation’s still open It’s just a movie”

Yeah, right

I hedged for a second

Tell hi to do, tell him ‘NO’ –

“…what movie?” I asked tentatively

“You knoho David Cronenberg is?”

Do I knoho David Cronenberg is

Do I have two horror-movie-obsessed brothers?

Yeah, I knoho David Cronenberg is

“I’ to see The Fly with you,” I said “Or Videodrome Or Crash Or whatever other fucked-up movies he did”