HazelGreenandGoodPart11

水静风

3 W  p  l; W" Y3 @0 Wa second, moved. sharply, neutral. "Sorry," quietly. more, quick, casual, heel, hallway. behind. slowly. "Oh god," breathed.

3 m/ Y! u) L7 h) T, |; [' PI a hair, a necessary. "Fuck," I muttered. a breathless. "Oh

." again, time.
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9 K: ~- ?- M7 @# p: v& qI then, ass. Christ, I can't him. relationship, I heard, saw, me?

"Shit." I her. "I'm sorry, Emily." me, red, a look. "Why?"

I disappeared. head. "We ago, Ty. Don't bad, okay? Awkward?" a shrug. "Absolutely, don't bad." me, light.

"You sure?" I quietly, a douche. I didn't well, I they'd a a ago, doesn't didn't hurt. Emily. I shoes, Emily's thighs... yeah, I'd myself. Somethings, on. held. "Absolutely." softly. "Don't night." I a nodded. "I you're him, fine." me, cheek. "Come on, I here."
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% _8 p) D% k1 `2 ZI cheek, a it. "Whatever want, beautiful." brightly, a blind.
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! y  v2 v1 u; q- `"You're tonight?" nodded. "Yeah, isn't change," said, me. "I've tonight, Captain."
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- r& B3 w+ ~. U  p1 h+ dI her. "Is so?" a wink. "You ass."

I a laugh. "Jesus, Em," I choked, laughing. again. "Did this, a while?"
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, a9 ~" @) A6 i7 p8 ~+ sI eyebrow. "Do out?" a shrug. "We you're something."

- C( z% U1 ^9 U$ a9 g# TI it. I tired, sure, I her. "I a something, I think." smiled. "I idea."

I hall. "And that?" me, hers, a squeeze. "Lets tourists."
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0 |3 p' R$ H9 K1 F9 N7 rI snorted. "I a tourist." laughed. "Lets street. around, things, watch, selfies, thing." I again.

" H9 C2 j( ?  i' t0 V7 Z2 V( a"That great, actually," I a grin. "Lets it, beautiful." I gently. "An date." me, sparkling. "An date," agreed. later, I drained.
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, p, a9 s: w" e2 H7 DI'd Todd, faced, existed, Jim's wife, who, I not, , I. it... gross, gross.
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I'd "traveling chair" it, handicapped.
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5 @* ~: v/ W/ Y% `' L9 T: m2 S  t. `She's old. She's a wheelchair. I'm ninety, one's matters.

/ r+ x5 B0 V7 sAnyway, I she'd her, she, night. a 10:15 pm, out. Christ. I it.
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, Y+ F% F4 z  l# j7 bI restaurant, Alex, Dean, bar. a hand. fashioneds.
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( ?% ^% L& e* b+ q: @; `/ v"Well, survived," I approached.

"Jesus." I head. "This I don't leave." a laugh. up. "Double bourbon. Rocks." eyebrow. "Double, huh? night?"
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1 B5 d4 q- G% k9 @& x. `6 J5 I+ RI a sip. down. I started.
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"Did I uncle?" coughed.

/ B/ w5 Q$ s4 E5 U, h! r"Both you?" wide. nodded. "I didn't incest."
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4 u* a, J3 s7 yI snorted. "Yeah, a night." drink. "Yeah, you've a night," said, sarcasm. paused, lips. "What mean?"

I briefly, was. happen. great.

9 W) k$ N) u5 w! ~! `1 h"I that's go."
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"Oh no," said, us. "Tell

* {' o% ~! l. m& X; R, o% C1 N. v, Alex." giddily. "Spare details." a glare, I wasn't well. wasn't wasn't, clearly. He'd speech. dangerous. me. now, I saw, heard, I bathroom, days.

I didn't doubt. I'd days, roughly, I I'd Emily, I'd days, wasn't much. Emily.

"I men's ago." bar, slowly, wide, dropped. "Dude..."
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"I bathroom, locked," said, drink. "So I waited. behind, out?" drink. "My é fucker, he's thighs."
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- K' ?7 _- i, ]$ `: Q8 ~8 W9 Y5 d"Dude, fuck," breathed. rapidly. "You bare? Seriously?"

I a place. I he'd girlfriend, into, I upset? easy, space, me, Emily.

7 O7 N8 y0 M. ]; w+ iI didn't them. I a slowly, I had. I didn't me. Whatever, I'm point.
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"You're pissed, I slowly, drink. "Fine, pissed. a want." I up. "But it. warning."
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3 U+ T/ E0 u7 ]5 q# _& B% d& W) lI Brad. "Drop it, you're Em." I said, quiet, low, a a person, a Alex. shut, me. "So true?" head. "You up?"

"What think?" I snapped. "Now it, alright? a... I, I don't her, understood?" nodded. eyes. "Why point." him. "Alex, fuck, man?"
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: H) P, {% e" u4 Z5 u"No, seriously," continued.

"Alex." said, warning.

"He's I existed." a laugh. drink.
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+ _( ^; D* f' d7 n, d/ `I nose. "That's true." I wasn't conversation, didn't Emily, I him. earlier, fine. it. snorted. "It true."
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I him. "It isn't."

"It is." snorted. "You is?" group.
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"I I don't that." I muttered, drink.

9 ?, a5 \1 Z0 e5 z$ O3 w4 q( ["He's relationships cars," said.
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I he'd slowly, away. hadn't shift. "What?" him. "Come on. reputation."

Dean's immediately. head. tightened. "Alex." calm.
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+ ~0 c' I5 U- g( GUnfortunately, completely. "No, seriously," continued. "I've two," Dean, "and Kara. years." winced. "Jesus Christ, Alex," breath. them. "What?"

I carefully. bar. "That's enough." silence, bar. first, face, step, Emily, corridor. relaxed, said, a wire.
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"Hey," us, space. a her.

3 Q# ~( O# X  l  j8 ]/ ~2 v8 VEmily's a paused, briefly, Alex. again, time. silence, containment.

"We've guys." said, Dean. me, touching, I body. faces, time. throat. "Yeah, uh... talking."

"About what?" asked, curious. enough.

Emily's Alex, now.

"Yeah," lightly, casually. "What about?" Yeah, I'm about. didn't exist. "We're is. a a That's all." a shrug, didn't casual. defensive, he'd done. a glance.
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"I mean, on," added, now, targeted. "It's a secret. he's exactly... gets."
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7 c5 R  J! L$ g8 s5 ]: s' s+ dKara's immediately. a expression. "Alex, now?"
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"I'm question," back. once. "No, you're not." him. again, I it, wasn't honesty. wasn't anymore. messier. filter.

1 f! G( `+ T" i" dEmily's a tighten.

"What problem?" asked.
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' M+ ?9 c& `$ p4 Q' f9 t. g- \A short, nose. "Nothing."
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"Alex," started, "don't here, okay? later." a face, now, me, Emily, disbelief, couldn't temper. nose, controlled, Emily. then, a wasn't anymore. uglier, bitterness, he'd out.
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' P4 D, v$ V' v* U9 B"No, actually, what?" said. alert.
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"Don't." I him. a laugh, humorless, drink. pointed, to. "If bathrooms, that's business," said. "We're anymore." silent, gradually, white. erased, clean, remaining. I twice, I up, bar. horrified, red, top. completely. visible, her. didn't notice, didn't care. "But it's anywhere," added. it. hot, immediate, violent. "What say?" low, controlled, I them. me, didn't stop. couldn't, wouldn't, landed.

"I'm serious," said.

"Alex," sharply.
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"No," Emily. her, worse. worse. "Everybody is. doesn't

# |5 e8 A( x/ h! T. Vrelationships," continued. "Fuck em, right?"

% b" Y3 V5 c/ P, {! F* a"Alex, up," said, all. a short, laugh. "Why? nobody's it?"

"Because you're asshole," flatly. hadn't spoken. "Come on, Emily. I'm break," said. head. "And pregnancy." a moment, incredulous. "What problem?" asked. again, time, happen. eyes. a second, spoke. physical, overhead. laughed, short, slowly, couldn't himself.
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"You is?" asked. beat, Emily. lifted, whiskey.
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; F  N7 Q3 J; Q$ M"She's problem," said.
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Emily's immediately, face. ""

! }/ f8 l# c3 ?8 i" @6 u2 h"No," in, intended, hadn't way. now, me, again. movement, shifted, he'd disappeared. wasn't anymore. wasn't accusation.
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"Because you're this," her. him. "What about?"
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$ m  o! e$ ~% L# R' j6 j+ I"I'm him." me, again.

, e' ?# j' |& \3 a2 u"Alex, stop," warned.
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"No." Emily. "Somebody it," insisted. I a forward. "Say what, exactly?" I asked, low. me, he'd snapped. "That you're her." silent. "That you're heart."
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"What?" again. Humorless, disbelieving. "Come on, Emily." twisted. "You material?" fists. "He can't a he's done. He's line, alone."
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' F1 ^5 ]( ?$ T) |"Jesus Christ!" shouted.
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"What fuck..." breathed, he'd a head.

: c8 n5 J1 j5 S4 q+ S"Okay, we're shit," snapped.
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; W! @" F" V3 h' _Emily, hand, humiliated, whole. changed, cold. I entirely. talking. reacting. me, immediately. changed. "Oh no," breath. a later, me. "Oh, fuck." anymore. me. hesitation. casually, awkwardly, deliberately, a a room, off. "Quinn," said, firm.
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I didn't respond. a Dean. instantly. Alex, him, instead, Alex's it. didn't provoking.

8 X5 ~1 _2 L" y3 ]2 U"Absolutely not," flatly. unstable, a breaks. us, then, unbelievably, laughed. "See?" said. briefly. "Alex..."

3 K7 l0 [5 j3 o2 Q! X"He isn't disagreeing." hurt. a again, Emily. "Look him."

: t5 c" G9 a5 |; p3 @"Shut up," immediately. him. now, mattered. "He's a , Emily." physical. "He'll you. That's M.O. guys." sides, controlled. again, to. "Quinn."

I didn't anymore. head, focus, Emily. wasn't else. wasn't angry, yelling. there, it. going, had, he'd it. "Don't yourself," her. shoulder. "Stop." looking. "Don't belt."
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I Brad's shoulder, firm, grounding, urgent. "Quinn."

( N) U1 {  |/ bI didn't anymore. Emily.

I it. loud. dramatic. a flicker. didn't embarrassment disbelief. fear. Alex, causing. humiliation.

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I eyes, shock. doubt. I I was. maybe, us, I'd right. I'd her. I'd leave. I I was. night. A sharp, chest, breathe. attention. "Buddy, don'"

"Brad," I flatly.
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"Don't." now, completely, serious. "Don't stupid."
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"He's a ," Emily.

"Alex, god, up," snapped. breath, glass, hollow. Emily. much. word.

, a% l! a6 A& ~' k, z"Somebody her," said.
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"Yeah, unconscious," immediately. a exhale, time, me. sight, it, stupid.
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"Quinn," said.

1 J5 Q: L! e/ S4 [5 ~# V, l' ~5 _I him. him. immediately, surrender, couldn't stop. "Easy. Careful." low, explosives, added, "I a a hotel." carefully. "You to, witnesses."
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6 A  }$ W5 R, |7 G" r6 S5 E8 cI a nod.

Brad's instantly, suspicions. "Okay," slowly. "Okay." anyway. sudden, clarity: I wasn't anymore. wasn't problem. that, second, sharp, second, I Emily's eyes.

1 m% F1 {+ Q$ O# s! [. just... off. didn't once, unsteady, it. away, room, voices, tension, mattered.

.

I her, facing.
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"Emily," I quietly. immediately. unsettled, said, hadn't a yet.

% n. P1 v' r' S5 j: ?$ t/ Z4 l"I..." there, ignore.

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Emily's wasn't anymore, else, room, it, ignore. wasn't now, all.
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5 {; E! ^" B7 W& D+ y% II a forward. immediately, I didn't it. time. a

I heart, I I I wouldn't. I her, a head, I myself. I'd of. I her, feel. I her.
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I a back, another. controlled, I wasn't I paying.

I didn't yet. slightly, else, hadn't for. stop.
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Almost, I didn't, I stayed, I wasn't I wouldn't much, worse, didn't break.

1 b! b% @) A: c' \' J0 V3 l2 CI first.
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! c8 p. d2 ~3 eI Kara, tight, controlled. "Make safely," I quietly, I felt. "I go." complicated, concern, frustration, understanding together, anyway.

1 B; N4 {& }& G: k% v+ v"Okay," carefully. "Don't me, Ty."

I nodded, exit, steps. me, I movement, something, breath, name, together. I walked, I me, room, I'd air, Emily's a said. I dinner, a me, hers.
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I didn't stop, didn't back.
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I I things. I worse. wasn't truth. simpler: name, I would've stopped. I would've back. hesitation. thought. would've voice. I couldn't shake. Alex. room. everyone. I myself.

I her. wasn't anymore. wasn't thinking. fact.

/ E5 N% b! `2 `# Y) k3 u# II'd I'd happier. job. life. I'd I control. that... loud...

* s. j9 G+ M/ j6 I- R  cI couldn't she'd room.

Uncertainty. Confusion. didn't next. wasn't everything. should've wasn't him. me. I wasn't her. steady. clean. didn't it. wouldn't moving. why.

why. I contained. I distance. I a long. I didn't things, I did, I deeply.

I'd years. didn't I'd loud. And, I had, wasn't a just... away.

, k! r& o. R1 b% x5 rI days. didn't me. that. didn't automatically I her.

Alex's I not, I didn't closely. I them, I couldn't it. I her?

I zones, I to, I up. I'd desert.

I years, people's lives, couldn't comprehend.

9 y% `& y" J/ W, MI a rank, a career, a long, all. here. a girlfriend, a family. love. Emily's seams. I Alex: annoying, smug, Alex... I I didn't have. wasn't a pilot. wasn't military. didn't a violence, adrenaline, distance. was...
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. teacher. way. A place. a didn't a crash. that, with. paper. didn't plan. life, future. me?
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I a I wasn't I'd in.
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A I couldn't predict.
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A time. a I of, I a me.
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I a walking, brain.
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I floor, meaning. loudly. a wouldn't hour. twice.

6 ^  s5 H- f$ x) H' `) kGood.

I I earlier, Mia, exhale. up. "What I you?"

1 l7 f" }' n2 e"Double bourbon, neat," I automatically, myself. "Actually, rocks." I card.

"Tab?" I nodded. up. "You active?" I card. USAA, a away. I nodded.

. [3 _" ?8 P$ E% m- d3 a"Air Force," I offered.
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* N; a% W2 {8 {% }: S* n/ Z"Retired Army, Rodriguez."
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I a a out. "Captain Quinn." nodded, register.
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1 q( W( Z/ W6 E4 K1 I# gI I waited. happened. a a anything. I hadn't a completely.
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I forward, bar. a second, I her. seconds.

; {' T5 F6 b$ M3 b" YEmily's anyway. confusion. hide. didn't I doing, should. tightened. I chest.
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; z5 L/ m9 `; f3 E& m"Jesus," I breath. me, down. "This one's me, sir."
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* z! e, [% z- g8 M! T; zI Kenny. "Thanks, man." a bar.
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I a I it. grounding. comforting. Just... a second.
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I I time. didn't. floor, loudly. A me. I to.

. q$ {* L/ k' B$ r2 a; V8 X( UI drink. first. I nose, time, I I breathing. didn't work.

  T  ^. d! \: k& uEmily's noise. restaurant, it. she'd day. she'd wasn't there, did. problem. simple, I proven, everyone, I wasn't.

I a bar, glass.
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"Another?" Kenny's quietly.
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I drink, I'd I realized. I once. "Yeah, thanks." comment.

I wasn't drunk. close, I anyway. wasn't night. me, breathing. flashing. laughing. clacking. wasn't itself.
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2 j' m+ v: }5 v. ~: W6 nI wasn't it.

I I body, a a a anything. pocket.

I didn't again. attention.

I slowly, I I didn't it.
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ð: you?
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, S# L+ [) }: q' h+ \ð: Ty, you? immediately.

I I should've, nothing, sharper. me. again.

I didn't away, a real. her. back, it. I'd restaurant, time. phone. I decide.

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: a drink. sent, immediately. ð: bar?
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I didn't matter, it. I I space, it.
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: I: a4 U" E4 K! BHonestly, I and/or up.

7 q: S) J& g+ \; `% fA through. ð: I won't anyone. ð: Brad. ð: Dean. ð: Kara. everything, chest, twitched. I it.
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I me, sighed.

: Mia. couldn't a second. ð: way.
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I words. a decision. I didn't that.
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tonight, her. I a coward. coming.

6 d. N( E8 V' ]2 I$ s6 uI I again. past, counter. I a swallow. now. better, important. I wasn't anymore.
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0 |) e: n0 U# d# v' kI Emily, terrifying. entrance. groups. Couples. Tourists. necks. her. I watch, it. hotel, wasn't town. automatically.

I felt. that, I I I obvious. coming. me, me, herself, I wouldn't anymore.

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& K. U9 K. k9 dEmily: others. I heels, Alex. now, him, a situation. side, time. world. Alex... calm, satisfied, a smug. to. chest. I fully. "How you." cleanly, cold, cutting, hard. hadn't back. ""

# g/ e. r& ]$ V1 D; |1 |"Shut up, Alex," I teeth. place. moving.
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Alex's slightly. ""

7 f- J) \4 _0 z3 a' ]: E; E"No," I again, sweat. "We helpful." tightened.

: ]1 c" X; @2 o: aI didn't stop. "We ago," I said, gaze. "Two. Years." nose. "I'm you." laugh, instead. "No." I once. "You're hurt." flickered. I I to.

: C" F1 @) d% p6 B; H" G- C: `  _"You're I've on. You're a isn't you," I continued. "And I that, Alex. I didn't become." tightened. "I'm I heart," I said, a second, true. "I am."
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Kim's tightened, top. Kara's slightly, now. didn't wouldn't move. a I permission.

7 G0 Z7 R) o# A9 Y! rI inhaled, myself. "But I don't that," I said. Alex's flickered. "And I'm out," I added. "But I out, now." I him.
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"I Tyler, Alex." immediately, Alex's tightened. I didn't interrupt. "I him," I said, now. "I have." sides. "That isn't you, had," I continued. "But truth."

I a breath. "I'm earlier. heard, you." I again. "And doesn't matter, Alex. doesn't I'm a a choice, irresponsible eyes." I head.
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"If I Ty, business."
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I bitterly. "I this. I happy, me." I head. "That's I you, Alex. I happy. me." softened, anger, time. I slightly. "But you're not, you're stew, fine. you," I quietly, "but him." a couldn't hearing.

I wasn't done. "Because I god," I added, dropping, "if again, I'm it." a sound, now. muttered, "Jesus Christ," a prayer. me. once, didn't a reply. he'd I me.

# x% y4 q' {' z/ }) ?4 C. vI didn't recover.
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' {1 E4 ?; i9 H7 ^+ @I turned, bag, walking. me, called, "Where going?"

I didn't down. "To a
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"Been years," said. "Good luck, Em!"

! G( y0 H0 t3 E  U* dI beyond, floor. a second, I there. pounding. said, leave.
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9 d& k$ o5 Q" J( G8 t7 w) UI fury, changed, instantly. I hurt, away. chest.

God, it. he'd face. I loud. idiot.

I walking. first, I I was. direction, endless. hand.
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9 m0 g0 a, q# a  P* uEm: you?

  ~# @$ Y) |: c+ yEm:

Ty, you?
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I walking. machines. drinks. machine, face.

- N( l4 @' I0 ~3 u/ HI another.
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Em:
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$ T' v3 ?- L+ j: ~8 }; e4 ZPlease. came.

+ V8 h2 L9 p! iTy: a drink.

I back.
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Em: bar? appeared.
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Disappeared. again. it. answer.
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"Come on, handsome. Don't this." I myself.

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I won't
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I purse. I needed, I was, importantly, I happened. hadn't me.
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. I'd Quinn. once, a second. this? a little. us? Absolutely. We'd other's minutes. overwhelming. him? me? issue, I old, I I him, realized.
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I credit. didn't care. responsibilities saw. days, he'd there. man, teenager, boy. needs. tattoos, confidence, a ego. I Mia, clear. wasn't me. me. Which, ironically, us.

I entrance,,and slightly, I nervous, I again. there, alone. him, a answers. thing. I sighed. himself.
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