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“So, I think that’s a seating chart” Austin points at poster board a few steps froh, it’s a seating chart I find my name with a plus one beside it and tell Austin, who smiles “Plus one, huh? Is that because you weren’t sure who you were bringing as your date?”

“If we didn’t have a date planned, I wouldn’t have brought anyone at all”

“In that case, I don’ta plus one” Austin smiles

We head over to table nine, where I see Valerie sitting with a man dressed in a black suit When we reach the table, she smiles up at me and introduces me to her husband, Rick I introduce the s about Austin’s side hustle of collecting and selling Pokéle key on a key ring

“I’ll eht now, so you have it,” she says “The address and all that fun stuff” She smiles “I think it’ll be fun, I mean, who doesn’t want to be in close quarters with some fun baseball players?”

“Right” I can’t ih as I put away the key inout the eht beside me

As I’ over what she just sent, I see people approach our table from the corner of my eye When I look up, I see Mitchell, Rodney, and Dylan sit down across from us I met Rodney the other day at the Cruz Media office Dylan looks betweenhis head as if he can’t believe I’d bring a date here As if he has any right to think that at all, being that we only went on a handful of dates and didn’t hook up Not all the way hooked up anyway Mitchell is stone faced and looks upset and I don’t even bother to try to decipher that e from him It seems that more often than not, he’s upset when he’s around me these days It doesn’t really make a difference to me Rodney introduces himself to Austin and Valerie’s husband and the other two follow suit

“I just gave Misty the key to her new apartment,” Valerie says

“You’re ?” Austin asks

“Only temporarily” I smile

“But you’re still going to work, right?”