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If she had me If I was her someone

"I knoe're not really together, but we're friends"

"I'm your boss"

"Not for long And you're my friend too"

"Horrifying for you"

She noticesfriends with me"

"No, gives me credibility omen, to have such a badass punk rock boss as my friend"

"Uh-uh"

"Yeah-huh"

"Won't they think I'm your ex-fiancée?"

"Guess it's complicated now"

She nods

"But ood They'll think I'et attached"

"Or fall faster because you're emotionally unavailable"

"Why does that happen?"

"I don't know Self-sabotage? Daddy issues?"

"I have plenty of those"

She laughs "Me too"

"Do I need to keep an eye out? For eht win your heart?"

"Only if they're especially handsome"

"That's it? Handsome?"

"Funny"

"Handsome and funny?" I ask

"And they don't take themselves too seriously"

"No software douche nozzles ant to invent a new cryptocurrency?"

"Absolutely not," she says

"And we're not getting more specific with handsome?"

"Handsome is handsome" Her eyes pass over me slowly Stop at the tattoo on my ribs "I do like some tattoos"

"Oh?"

"Shows commitment"

"I have them"

"Even so"

"Be honest It's the pain tolerance"

"You got h pain tolerance"

"I knew it," I say

She laughs the way she always does—like she loves that I' deeper

That offer filling the air

I want to fuck her

I want

"Was there so else?" she asks "About Bash?"

"Yeah The way he loved… You kno ets me into trouble?"

"Does it?"

I er"

"You have a story?"

"That's classified shit"

"Since when?"

Since I started caring what she thinks about me "There was a friend with a hot sister That was probably the biggest mistake"

"What happened?"

"It was before I kne to s clear I broke her heart I didn't mean to, but…"

"She fell for the emotionally unavailable bad boy?"

"Are you stereotyping me?"

She nods

"What does that make you?"

"The punk rock poor girl who thinks she's too good for rich assholes"

"Your parents have money"

"Not Pierce money"

"Enough"

"You wear a suit and have surprising depth"

"Isn't that the fantasy? The guy who's mean to you because he's so broken inside?"

She laughs "Where did you learn that?"

"Opal"

"She knows better than to fall for that?"

"We watched Gilether"

"You did not"

"The first few seasons"

She s with me"

"Scout's honor"

"You weren't a scout"

"And you want to be the one to tie me up, huh?"

Her cheeks flush "If it would get you out of my hair, maybe, but I've never had that fantasy"

"Never?"

"Have you?" she asks