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Silence finds my ears, thick and empty I slowly lower my ass on that step halfway down the staircase and stare at my feet

Is Billy right?

A myself with this whole Jimmy dance number …?

What if I’this up with Ji with s?

I return to Jimmy’s roo defeated and unsure Jimmy continues to softly snore at my side, blissfully unaware of , my eyes unfocused, lost

It’s a bad night to get no sleep

Especially considering that I work an early shift at the theater tomorrow

Before I know it, I open ht I slowly blink the sleep out of my eyes, then notice Jimmy’s arm over my chest He’s turned over in his sleep and now half-cuddles me in a lazy sort of sprawled-out-across-the-bed way After a deep yawn, I take a look at htstand

My shift starts in eleven minutes

“Fuck!” I shout out, thrown into a sudden panic as I toss Jiet dressed “Wake up, Jiet to work in ten minutes! Fuck, where did I put my suspenders??”

I’ roorunting and sniffing loudly “The fuck …?” he moans “What time …? Mmph …”

“Jionna be late!”

This perfor-out continues for well over ten minutes Twenty, in fact It isn’t until nearly a half hour after my shift has started that Jimmy finally pulls up to the theater in his truck with a sweaty, frantic-faced er seat

“I’ll be back to pick you up at—” Jimmy starts

I sla into the theater to clock in as quickly as I can

Of course, Anthony Myers is working today, and he is all too eager to taunt me from behind his wide concession stand fortress “Ooh, boy You’re late Mr Lemon is not happy Not one bit”