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"Did he hurt you?" Scott undergoes a Hulk-like transfor-out ex-rocker body

"Yes!"

Scott’s body completes the Hulk transformation

"No" I sob hysterically "Emotionally"

Scott shrinks back into his natural fores a look with him "Of course you can stay," she says

"Will you call ht"

She leads ht now" She hugsfa

Kurt opens his door "What’s going-- Oh What happened?"

Sabine releases me into his care I flop onto his unmade bed, and he closes the door behind me "It’s…it’s over!" I say

Kurt places a solid hand onsobs "Josh broke up with you?"

"No I broke up with hiet it," he finally says

I tell him the story to the best of my current ability, and when I’m done, he scratches his head "So you broke up with Josh before he could break up with you"

"No" My head is swi "It wasn’t like that Or… it was more than that I don’t know"

"You’ve never been able to believe that he could like you as much as you like hihts to get a conversation going in which you could du awful and truth-y stings inside ofto break up with him I do believe that Josh would have left an But land, already living together Which would’ve been even worse My heart couldn’t take it –the person who’d brought me there Because eventually, no matter what the circumstances, he would see the real me Josh is a beautiful, messy, passionate work of art, and I’ here to love

"You told him that you’re a placeholder in his life," Kurt says "So does that make me or Josh the placeholder in yours?"

My attention jerks back to hiht to one is a sucker punch, but what he’s suggesting is even worse "That’s not the sauys don’t…share the sale to put it in terms he’d understand – "perform the same function in my life"

"Because you and I aren’t romantically involved?"

"Exactly"

"Josh and I don’t perforrees, "but we do take up the saave hiuilt I can’t deal with it on top of everything else A shrill ring fro to reply We sit up, alert My phone rings again Kurt pulls it out and examines the screen "It’s a Manhattan number Do you want me to answer it?"

I shake my head

"It’s probably Josh"