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“Celebration is part of life”

“We can celebrate when Kathleen says she loved everything we did so ues”

“When you go for ular?”

“I don’t need to You’ll get bored and tap out before we’re done with this”

“What makes you say that?”

“The fact that you’ve looked at your phone fifty times in the past hour”

I glanced up froe I’d sent out to an eotten a response yet “Maybe I’ office equipment But if you’re so assured of your e don’t need to keep up the engagement pretense We can walk up to Kathleen toood side”

The blood drained out of Zara’s face

It wasn’t that I took pleasure in her pain—no, that’s a lie I found her freak-outs hilarious The way her nose scrunched up and her eyes got saucer wide Her lip would usually fall free froaze narrowed It would be a wonderful look when I signed on the dotted line with Winthorpe e finished

There wasn’t anything to even feel bad about I was beating her at her own career Every new idea had co came from her

Cocktails High hat tables Waiters passing hors d’oeuvres Another boring stringed quartet playing songs fro dead composers everyone pretended to be able to tell apart

“Let’s compromise One idea froive the they’ve never seen before”

She dropped her head and squeezed her forehead “If you say—”

“Axe throwing,” we both said at the same time

“What the hell is it with you and axe throwing?” She slapped her notepad down on the table