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“Yeah,” he replies, see them to you”

Excuse ht This is just another trick—

“These tickets are for you to give me”

I’m completely confused when he slaps down the first ticket I realize that they aren’t actually kissing booth tickets at all They’re Christmas violation tickets Really nice ones, like I think son software to create a replica of a Reindeer Falls ticket, but with a tiny red-headed elf added in

And the violations thes like, “Was a Dick,” “Shouldn’t Have Left,” and “Contempt of Christmas”

“Wait” I stare at the tickets, then back at Ryan “You wrote yourself a contempt of Christmas ticket?”

“That’s what you said to me when you walked out And it struck a chord, because you were right”

I stare at hiht are the three best words in the English language next to I love you

“Worse,” he adds,my eyes, “I was in contempt of love”

I gasp

“For real?” I ask him, eyes wide

“Yeah, shit, that was fucking cheesy wasn’t it?” He runs a hand through his alreadya bunch of it in exasperation as he paces in front of me “I can do better than that Let me think”