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“So you could say in front of your lass

I dropped lass With Jules, I never felt like I had to hide who I was, but I didn’t want to be a pity case, a sob story where she’d look at me and squeeze my hand and smile at me because she was that kind of person But she didn’t know everything about me What would she think if she knew?

My throat tightened and I closed h that dart to h and wide around entle shake of hn

“You’re taking all the fun out of this, but how about Julienne Fries?”

Her eyes lit up and the corner of her lasses up her nose in that certain, adorable way I?

??d maul her on this dance floor “That, I can handle”

We found a spot along the wall and Jules gave me the rundown on the ins and outs of our weekend companions

“He’s here with two of his ex-wives and his new fiancée?” I pointed at the guy with a way too perfect, nearly-touching-his-eyebrows hairline, who didn’t look much older than us He had a stick thin strawberry blonde on his ared to drape herself all over hi hiht look handsy, but ninety percent of the time she never made contact

“Technically, only one ex-wife The first ularly snort his ht up his nose before the first week of the month was over”

“He stopped using coke then?”

She shook her head and didn’t even try to cover her laugh “Nope, his er when he turned twenty-five They paid off his debts and now if he tried to snort all the money every month, he’d be half a step from a coronary, which is why everyone thinks his new fiancée is trying to speed the wedding up to this winter”

“And I thought the football team had drama” I downed the last of my drink

“They’ve got nothing on faenerations with more money than sense”

“What about you? You’re one of theazine photoshoot happening in front of us

“Do I seem like one of them?” Her eyebrow quirked up