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Charlene snorts but doesn’t co else here”

A small box sits in the middle of the bouquet I open the card firstI can’t wait to show you around my hometown

~xo AlexCharlene grabs the card out of oing on?”

“Alex wants ame in Toronto”

“And?”

“And spend the weekend with him in Guelph”

“Bless you” Charlene handsthe weekend? You’ve already said yes, right?”

“Guelph and no”

Charlene plucks another tissue from the box

“I’ Guelph is the name of his hoet the time off work first before I said yes” I cleared it with the boss thisIt’s not a total lie

“This is huge I can’t believe he invited you to his hoo to this game”

“If we can convince o to Toronto, she’ll pester Sidney until he agrees, and he’ll get the tickets The Hawks are doing really well He’ll want to support Buck”

“S”

I hand a ht?”

Having Alex buy the ticket for o, it solves all the issues I’ll still feel a little guilty about it, but I’ll survive

The other part of my plan is to convince Charlene to coaet Sidney to spring for her plane ticket as well “Will you come?”

“Are you kidding?”

“Sidney can probably get an extra ticket to the game and the hotel will be covered”

Charlene ihts on her phone “And I’ll get to meet Darren in person, what could possibly be better?”

I clink ot her on o

The deep runal her arrival at the end of drink number two As usual, she doesn’t knock “Is that Char’s car in the driveway?”