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“What can I do?” I said quietly “He’s getting married And I think I knohy now You should have seen hi with kids, and they adore hiive him children of his own I can’t compete with that”

“Um, it’s called adoption,” Jess whispered

“Yeah, Mo pointed out the obvious, too But maybe he wants his own flesh and blood with this woman Whoever she is And maybe it’s more than that Maybe he loves her”

“He loves you, Jamie”

“I’etsto need you to block out the wholeis You,to have to run away to Mexico and spend weeks getting totally shit faced I won’t want to sober up until sometime next fall”

“Ok We’ll do that” Jess looked at o on seeing hi away right before the wedding”

“I can’t,” I told her “Walking away noould ripto be with hiret that for the rest of my life”

Jess put her arm around me and I put my head on her shoulder, and we tried to focus on theshot up And just as the good guy reached Sarah Connor, a voice behind us said, in perfect unison with the e, “Come with me if you want to live”

We both turned to look at Dainst the doorfrao shorts and a t-shirt from my favorite sushi bar, Pink Godzilla in Santa Cruz The shirt featured a pink cartoon baby Godzilla riding a surf board

And Jess said, “Holy crap! Less than a week together and you’ve turned that well-dressed man into a mini Jamie”

I rolled my eyes at her and said to Dmitri, “Hey baby Sorry if oke you”

“You didn’t,” he said “Mind if I join you guys?”

“Please do”

I started to slide over to make rooainst lanced over his shoulder and said, “Hey Jess Cute PJs”

“Hi Dmitri They’re Jamie’s fault”

“Ah”

“So, just to catch you up, ere doing shots every tiot killed But Jamie just wimped out,” she said

“Yeah, after six shots of tequila!” I reached for the remote and put the sound back on, and asked, “Want ?”