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"If I’e working on your car I’ll get your number from Grey and text you so you have mine in case I’ soe to her, like she didn’t believe this was happening as she turned and walked into Ma to make sense of it myself

It wasn’t until Grey sent me Charlie’s number twenty e froht about adding Charlie’s number to Candy I hadn’t even used Candy other than to talk to Words since the wedding Actually, I hadn’t used it for its designated purpose for almost a week before that

From the day I’d walked into Mama’s Café and found that journal, I’d been so consumed with Words that I hadn’t had sex in nearly teeks On top of that I’d been trying to apologize to Charlie for how I’d treated her, and so how I no her

Charlie--Charlie of all people A girl I’d never looked twice at, I now couldn’t stop thinking about, and I now had no doubt that it was because I’d gone fro sex nearly every day to not at all Because I was addicted to a girl as real, but would never be real to me And now I knew I needed to put an end to this before I did so

Chapter Ten

Charlie

June 11, 2016

I CHECKED MY phone for what had to be the twentieth ti out into the parking lot once ain But like the first two ti until his voiceato be ten or fifteen minutes late, it was even okay to be twenty minutes late if there was traffic on the freeway You know, if we had freeways or traffic in Thatch But even then, you expected a call or a text fro why they were late That’s what normal people did anyway Normal people probably also only waited for about fifteenfor Deacon for nearly an hour and a half, sure that he would be coth of the town itatedly on the table I was sitting at in Ma there

I had nothing to go hoer and Grey were already on their trip to Seattle I could have spent the tione to e him I’d told myself that Deacon would show up as soon as I did, and I kneouldn’t want to give up talking to Stranger so soon

With one last look around the café, I slid out from the corner booth and finally left After a quick scan around the parking lot to be sure I didn’t seein the direction of Danny’s Garage

My chest tightened uncoing on the door stated they were closed and, being a Saturday, had been for hours Instead of calling Deacon again or turning around, I continued on in the direction of Deacon and Graha of different scenarios as I walked Most of the had happened to hiain for forgetting to pickme in more ways than with just his words how sorry he was