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Like me, Emery was happy for our friend

After dinner, we rode back toin ot set up for practice By the tihts were off, her amp was hooked up, and her headlamp was on I took a low of her flashlight as it reflected off the metal door of the safe

She knelt in front of it, wearing her sexy dress, and her unsexy headphones, la to detract fro a painter create art, only her canvas was a paper graph taped to the front of the safe door

I used the light frouide my way to the chair I watched from and did my best to stay quiet I didn’t want to distract her, and yeah, it’d probably be better if I wasn’t in the roo near her So, I atteet I was there

I was surprised how long it took her to catch on to what I’d done tonight She marked a dot on her paper, only to erase it after another pass around the dial, and glared at her graph like it ritten in a foreign language

Abruptly, she pulled off her headphones, straightened her posture, and began to dial in the coht until she hit sixty-nine, spun to the left to get to zero, and then repeated with the same two nu open

She flashed loves with a snap of the latex “Nice”

I tossed a hand up in a ‘why not’ gesture “Let’s go for a walk”

Once she had everything put away, I took her hand, led her through the house, and out the back onto the balcony It was late and the sun had set hours ago, but it was also mid-July, which meant other than the humidity, it was nice outside

Her heels clicked across the stone tiles as I pulled her toward the stairs that led down to the gardens The landscape lights were on, casting a war the perimeter of the lawn

“Where are we going?” she asked, genuinely curious

“You’ll see”