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"I know, I just…Jesus, if they only knew--" he started to say

"If they only knehat? If they only knew you were an a musician? If they only knew you’re the funniest motherfucker this side of London? If they only kne er?"

"Grace, please No one cares that I like Fatburger" He chuckled

"Oh, really? I know teen girls, and I kno their uarantee if you mention your favorite fast food, at soirls? We love that stuff I still reer was, and I haven’t read anything about hi of the issues of BOP and Teen Beat I used to read cover to cover

"Girls are weird," he muttered

"I heard that," I warned

"Good, I ruddy well meant you to You’re all mental, and somehow I ended up with the craziest one of all," he said, teasing me now

"Tread carefully there, or I’ll h Live tape"

"Tape? Like an actual videotape? Wow, like, frohties?"

"You’re on thin ice, fucko," I said, lowering my voice to let hiht it

"You need to get sooing?"

"Good They’re good Everything is pretty well set No led under the covers This was the tiht I missed hi his on

"Yes, I think so Sweet Nuts, you sound tired too Why don’t we go to sleep?"

"That sounds good If I were there, what do you think we’d be doing now?" he asked I could hear his covers rustling Soyour hands under my shirt"

"M my boobies with your hands"

"Definitely"

"And now you’d be groaning"

"Because your boobies feel so fantastic?"

"No, because I just turned on Golden Girls, and it’s the episode where Rose tells Dorothy and Blanche about the Great Herring War"

"And on that note, I will say goodnight Say goodnight, Gracie"

"Good night, Gracie"

He paused, and I could hear hiht

"I love you, Jack"

"I love you too, Grace"

The next as hell for both of us I was in rehearsal all day, every day, and usually well into the night He was on his monster promo tour, all over the country I checked in on him each day via the internet, andfun too As a great tie-in to the ti aspect of the film, the studio had booked personal appearances for Jack in the science centers and iddy crowds! This was truly the h, and when he told me how nervous he was, or how much it freaked him out when everyone screamed at him, I si so hardly anyone in the world could appreciate, and the ave to his fans, the more they loved him They loved that he said whatever he wanted, that he was self-deprecating, that he was funny and silly--and, boy, did they love that he was British

"I’et in the shower What’s your schedule like today?" I asked one day when he called to check in He was soh he wasn’t sure exactly where Different city, different hotel every day

"Me, settle down Although I do et

"Stop it Killing me!"

"You kno much I love to wash your hair Itlike a cat "That’s soet to do"

"Maybe I should include that in the interview I have this afternoon I can tell thepurposes only," he said

"You wouldn’t dare That hair and those coconuts are hed

"Mreet in twenty minutes, and I don’t think I could explain away er Only two more days and you can channel your excite to be in town for literally twenty-four hours, at least sixteen of which were taken up by proations I would be in rehearsals The only tiht Which was fine by et

I’d watched daily as his confidence grew, and thewith security, and each night his hotel was crawling with Joshua-lovers He used aliases at each hotel, never checking in under Jack Haame A few times he used a combination of Holly’s na fun with it

In the same week, in different cities across the country, if you were looking for Jack Hae McHair

Johnny Nuts

Sheridan McGeorge

And, my personal favorite:

Sophia Patrillo

Finally, he was in New York I was on pins and needles all day, not only because he was here, but because I didn’t knohen exactly I was going to get to see hi joined him for part of the movie tour, and we’d tentatively planned to ain in a hotel, this time the Plaza