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Her face registered genuine shock

“This girl broke up with you last year, didn’t she?”

“Thirteen o,” I said “Thirteen months and fourteen days”

She blinked “There’s been no one else? Holly’s the only girl you ever dated?”

It was pathetic,the days EvenI didn’t care, though For sos to Claudia

“We were supposed to get et—”

“You?” Claudia said incredulously “Colin, forgiveblunt but you’re a total panty-dropper! Heartbreakingly gorgeous!”

Here it comes…

“Your body alone is ridiculous! You could have any girl you wanted, any girl on caht or day!”

She wasn’t saying these things to boostlike that I could tell that she meant them

“You could be rebounding with half the co-eds on cairl you’ve ever slept with?”

Annnnd… There it is

“No,” I said, wincing at the inevitable followup

Claudia seeht stands?”

I shook ain slowly “I mean ‘no’ as in I never slept with her”