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With my purse hooked over the inside of e pizza and bu to be starting in about twenty minutes and I want to have my pajamas on and my first slice of pizza on a plate on my lap before they drop the puck

Bishop and the teao for a few reasons First and foremost, it was a short trip, out and back in one day to Houston The hotel and catering confirmations could be handled via phone I also wanted to be in the office today in case there was an actual job offer fro Department, whether that offer was o because I still had a guest in my house

I unlockto duaze immediately sweeps the interior to locate Nanette She’s on the couch with the relance over her shoulder before turning back “Hurry up The ga soon”

It seeuest and o, Nanette has been an overly gracious guest It ing out at eneral cleanup Nanette helped out with that and we actually had soaht and was not bent out of shape at all when I told her I was going to stay at Bishop’s place We offered to drop her so at ht it was cool that she did not feel the need to go out and party, but Bishop wasn’t buying it He called it “the calm before the storm”

Yesterday I spent the entire day with Bishop and it was a and spent the afternoon chilling at his house, which also as he took me to an out-of-the-way Peruvian restaurant that he had heard good things about Bishop and I are both adventurous eaters We dined on seviche, anticuchos—or beef heart kebabs—and salty plantains We were there for two hours and I don’t knohere the time went

He stayed with ht We watched some TV on the couch, and with a full and happy belly, I fell asleep with my head on his lap I don’t kno Iwith hi off to catch the team plane to Houston

I spent severalthe last few days We have fallen into a relationship A real relationship We haven’t talked about lies, fake engagements, or ways to mollify my father We talked about each other, we held hands, and we ate ether We watched TV and he carried me to bed when I was asleep

He didn’t even bother to wakesmile on my face

But he didn’t

And that somehow makes the relationship all the more real, because it ht

Walking into the living room, I dump the pizza box onto the coffee table I turn toward the hallway that leads to the bedrooet my pajamas on Grab us some plates”

“Got it,” she says

It only takes et out of my dress and into a pair of sleep shorts and a camisole top My feet are always cold, so I put on a pair of fuzzy socks I washon soame

When Iroom, Nanette has plates, napkins and two bottles of water She’s already halfway through her first slice of pizza

“This is really good,” she says while chewing a mouthful She then nods down to the coffee table and I see a ten-dollar bill lying there “For my share”

“Thanks,” I say, once again thankful that Bishop had a talk with Nanette about her uest

I settle onto the opposite end of the couch froe slice of pepperoni pizza onto rease on it and I’et in New York, but knowing it will never quite make it