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“You want to knohat’s funny?” she asks rin on her face

/>“What?” I ask as she gets up and walks to the counter, grabbing the folded newspaper she was reading when I got here

“This is funny,” she laughs, throwing the New York Daily Journal right in front of me In bold black letters there are only tords, FAIR CATCH, and down below there’s a blurred photograph of Danny and I leaving the Nailers’ stadium in his Aston Martin “Oh my God”

“That’s right, babe You’re a star now”

Still barely believing it that I’es until I find the article I read it in one sitting, and then I reread it for good measure

“They’re treating you like a princess,” Becca states with a chuckle, and it’s the truth They refer to ’s recent success and as the ed the city’s ible bachelor

“Oh, God Is this really happening? Please tell me that this isn’t a dream”

“It isn’t a dreaht in front of me “Eat up, princess Or else you’ll be the mysterious woman that lost her internship at Price Coopers”

“Right,” I nod, stuffing a piece of toast inside my mouth as I reread the article for the third time in a row I finish breakfast as fast as I can, and then I take a quick shower before putting on a black professional dress and discrete make-up

“See you later, babe,” I wave at Becca, getting out of the door in a hurry I’ to the office a fewfor the day I’ the upper ht hire me as soon as I have ood

As I make my way to the subway, I can’t help but stop in front of a newsstand That headline, FAIR CATCH, jule person in New York is carrying a copy of that paper

“Look, isn’t she…?” I hear so at her boyfriend I show her an easy s on her lips with a delay It’s almost as if she’s star struck

“Make sure he keeps playing like that!” Her boyfriend, a guy with an overturned Nailers’ cap on his head, tells me excitedly

“Will do,” I tell the, and then I keep on my way I’ve never really been the kind of person that pays any attention to her surroundings, but now I feel like a sonar, pinging everything aroundtheir eyes as if they recognize me from somewhere, and women whisper between themselves as I walk past them

Everyone who recognizesfor h birds will be perched onto bust soirl in the world because that’s exactly how I feel right now