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“Listen,” Paul said “I was thinking… Could you turn that off a minute?”

Ian removed the bud from the other ear and put the player to the side

“Listen,” Paul started again “I was thinking The ladies fro by in a little while”

“Yeah, I know,” Ian said “You told me”

“No, it’s…” Paul scratched his forehead “I was thinking that o to the library or so”

Ian looked confused “You need a book?”

“No… I just thought…”

“You’re doing a lot of thinking”

“I just thought that maybe it would be better if you went so”

“Went somewhere else?”

“Just during the ”

Ian’s face tightened, creating a line between his eyebrows “Oh, just during the ,” he said “Not for my whole life”

“I knew you’d get upset,” Paul said, kicking at a fuzz ball on the carpet with his toe

“Then why did you ask?”

“Could youto you down on the floor”