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“She’s good, huh?” Andy grinned “Told you”

“I believed you or I wouldn’t have booked you without hearing her first I trust you” Tom poured a vodka tonic for a thin brunette as he talked “But damn”

“Yeah She gets that reaction a lot Writes all the songs, too”

Touy in a non-ironic trucker cap “I’d love to sit in sometime”

Andy raised an eyebrow “Yeah? Youon tour in two o They’ll need a bassist Want me to recommend you?”

“How long?”

“Two e towns”

Two months away from the bar Ouch Tom opened a Sam Adams for Andy Two months away from Katie “I don’t know, man I’ll have to think about it”

“It’s a good gig She pays well Dave and Guillermo are pretty cool, too”

For the rest of the set, that was all Toet a chance to talk to Eh school kid asking the prettiest girl in school to the prolass of the two hundred and fifty-dollar scotch that had been gathering dust under the bar as a tribute when his cell phone buzzed in his pocket

COME GET ME, the text e read

Tohed and rubbed his temples He’d offered to pick up his sister if she ever had too much to drink, but that had been when she was sixteen She enty-five now She knew To

CALL A CAB, he texted back He slid his phone back into his pocket and closed out the tab of a couple ere pulling on their coats They’d barely signed their credit card slip when his jeans vibrated again

NO MONEY WILL JUST DRIVE

Shit Up onstage, Eic with the piano Drink orders had slowed a little and the crowd had thinned as the night grew later, but there were still all the closing duties to complete