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We got to the house about an hour ago, and we’ve just been hanging out on the porch talking since then It’s nice to be alone, not having to shout over the music

“I told you I was a terrible dancer,” I tease as Kory slips off her heels and rubs her feet “Here, put them in my lap”

She laughs but props her feet up onthem

“It’s not you, it’s me,” she says, and I tickle her foot in retaliation “Seriously I’ht wasn’t the ti to have ht”

“What can I say? I found a beat and I shookher laugh?

“I like your tail feathers,” she says, and a moment of silence passes between us

Just when I’, Marcus, one of my soccer teauys behind him

“Oh, captain,out the shot glass

“No can do I’ht” I feel Kory try to pull her feet from my lap, and I hold on to them so she can’t

“Don’t worry, we’ve got a bus to take the ships back houys behind hi

“What did you say?” I ask, er

“My bad, Henry,” Marcus says, holding his hands up and taking a step back “I thought this was a charity thing No harm no foul”

The other guys fall around laughing and I’m pissed as hell I stand up so fast the soda that was on the arm of my chair falls in my lap and spills all over my tux and Kory’s feet

“Shit, I’ to wipe it off