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The closest parking spot I could find was at the end of the block, and for some reason my brother accompanied me all the way to ifts inside, and then I turned to hiuys shouldn’t have gone to so much trouble”

“It was no trouble at all So, are you co over tomorroatch football?”

“Oh No, I have to work Sorry, I forgot to tell you”

“They’re sure piling on the hours at the hospital”

“It’s by choice With the holiday season, a lot of people are asking for ti up soht off and can attend the holiday party”

He asked, “What about everyone who has to work tonight? Do they all justup a ‘be back soon’ sign and shut its doors for a few hours”

“The people working tonight are getting ti with double the raffle tickets for the prizes being given out at the party Nobody’s co, from what I’ve seen Besides, not everybody likes fancy parties”

“I’ fun, even if it doesn’t really sound like so you’d be into,” Seth said, as he absently fixed his blond hair, which didn’t need fixing

“I wasn’t going to go, but Yolanda twistedout with her and JoJo all night, so just call me Third Wheel Willy”

I hadn’t thought about what I was saying, but my brother’s cheerful expression wavered, replaced by a look of guilt at the whole third wheel thing But then he stuck a s a plus-one, since Yolanda’s taking JoJo Why don’t you ask your cute roommate to be your date?”

“Which of my roommates is cute?”

He looked at uys Ito Lark He seems fun”