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"You know, this shit’s your fault"

"What are you talking about?"

"If you hadn’t taught rade, I probably wouldn’t have developed the nodule onrooht you to smoke, you wouldn’t have ever turned cool, and you wouldn’t have gotten to feel up Ellie Martin that summer"

Ellie Martin Now that’s a nairl had double-Ds in sixth grade Perfectly round, like two giant cantaloupes I sigh, thinking back to that day "Totally worth a nodule"

Nolan chuckles "By the way, if ere gay, you’d be the catcher taking it up the ass I’d be pitching"

"I definitely would not be taking your skinny little prick My anaconda would be splitting your ass in two" I pause "And why are we even having this fucking conversation anyway?" We both laugh

"Mr Beckham," the nurse calls

"You want h for the entire waiting rooaudy rings, he blows me a kiss

After an hour with the otolaryngologist and a forty-fiveto Pulse Records to sign the tour contracts Opening for Easy Ryder is an ideal gig for us--their audience looks a lot like our audience, our play time is only a little shorter than theirs, and since we have the sae studio tiging feeling that I’ible evidence to support nore it

The Pulse offices are impressive: walls lined with platinum album covers, framed Billboard charts--a literal hall of fae conference room that could easily seat fifty The pretty woh heels who steered us into the inner sanctum is replaced by an even prettier woman with an even shorter skirt and even taller heels

"I’m Heidi, Mr Simon’s personal assistant Welcoizes He’s running twenty minutes late He asks that you please reen roo if you’d like to pop in and listen Or there is a cafeteria downstairs If you tell the will be on the house"

"Which one will you join er I rollto head downstairs and get soht doesn’t even have a coffee pot," I goad Nolan

"I don’t drink coffee…why the fuck do I need a coffee pot?"

"For when I stay over, asswipe"

"Go back to your own place in Jersey I’ a daht stay over more often" Nolan turns his attention back to Mr Siht have to stop and get a pot"

I chuckle, shakeconquest

The cafeteria is crowded, even though it’s somewhere between breakfast and lunchtienerally considerfor coffee, but the sh the air and s, bacon and cheese on a roll, an orange juice and a chocolate pudding Actually, two chocolate puddings Because people who pass by fresh chocolate pudding without grabbing one just can’t be trusted

Finally at the front of the long register line, I realize I’ve forgotten to grab the damn coffee I leave my tray and tell the cashier to take the next person I seriously shouldn’t walk around at only eleven in thein my ear buds

The sinuous riffs of "Texas Flood" have me lost to the music and it takes me five minutes to prep my coffee because of the constant need to stop and accouitar Oblivious, I ister to collect my tray and pay, when a wo the line?" she says

I pull the bud fro here?" For a quick second, I actually think Icut in line by a guy who is going to lose his hearing fro his ot my coffee" I hold up my cup as if evidence is needed The cashier apparently isn’t as in awe of Lucky as I a I take a bill from my wallet and motion to my tray and Lucky’s "For both"

"You don’t have to buy my breakfast"

"I want to" I’d rather buy you dinner andI look down and s and coffee