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All he could think about hen he’d kiss that face again

“Ah Didn’t realize you had a new project”

Max rolled his eyes and rubbed his face, wiping away the sht of Jere people when I can?”

“There’s nothing bad about it Josh Singh would still have a unibrow and be wearing floods if you hadn’t stepped in How’s he doing, by the way?”

“Seeed to his girlfriend”

“Cool So what’s the prob with your new protégé?”

“He came out to his family in the summer and it went pretty badly Hasn’t really talked to them much in months He’s from Victoria, so he’ll be on ca about how much that would suck”

Meg’s oing to invite him to come home with us?”

And there it was, the idea that had been silently looping around his brain, building up steaestion

“Mom and Dad won’t mind There’s plenty of room”

“Yeah They won’t”

It still gave hi called Max’s father “dad” She’d been younger when their parents got together, so iven name, Valerie He’d already had adifferent now He wasn’t even sure he wanted to

Shaking off the vague, bittersweet , “You wouldn’t mind?”

“Nope The more the merrier If he’s just a friend, they won’t be weird about it You reht Craig home?”

“Ugh, Craig I forgot about that guy”

“I wish I could” She gave a full-body shudder “He sucked But it was so aard Suddenly they were Puritans and giving us ‘The Talk’ about how inappropriate it would be to ‘engage in sexual activity’ in the family home As if we didn’t masturbate there for years”