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Hattie pulls a handful of toilet paper from the dispenser beside her She hands it tobut a snake Trustto worry about”

“Layla?” Josh’s voice echoes in the bathrooirl’s bathroom, a sacred place, and he’s invaded it I’m not ready

“We're in here,” Hattie calls out She pulls me to my feet and rubs her thuht with a raccoon, but there’s notthe stall door for him

Josh hovers in the entryway of the stall with his hands in his pockets “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to yell at you”

I lean against the sink and crossin only o, but Josh looks like he’s been run over by a truck I fight the urge to pull hi, because all I want to do is make his, lost cats, lizards without tails; I have a soft spot for theirl”

“She’s pregnant” Josh runs his fingers through his hair

I suck in a breath and it catches I can’t let it go Can’t feel anything over ainst my chest “She’s what?”

“It’s notfor ht break if I don’t “We slept together twice and I used a condom both times Plus, she was on the pill”

I pull my hands back and wrap theh I haven’t done anything wrong I’m no fool, I know Josh has been with other people, but that doesn’t mean I want to hear about it I h his hair, then turns and kicks the trashcan bolted to the wall

“Fuck!”

He backs against the stall and slides down it to the floor This oing on I chew my bottoine what hesomeone claim a baby is yours A baby that you’re ninety-nine percent sure isn’t, but then there’s that one percent haunting you I sit down beside hiainst his

“I wanted to ht” Josh lifts his head and drops it against the wall behind him

“You were batting a thousand at dinner”

“And now?” Josh’s sad eyes look at me

I don’t know The whole ically, I know I should juet as far away from Josh and his drama as possible, but my heart and my head are out of sync A part of noring it