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No one said a word about his fa attention, ready to swoop in with lad he’d finally popped back up on the radar, and to knoas doing well, that he was happy

After dinner alked around the roo Senior Superlatives: Class Clown, Cutest Couple, that sort of thing After what I’d seen tonight, I kneas on here somewhere; it was just a question of where Best Hair? Best S? I could see all three, but it turned out to be the one on the end: Most Likely to Succeed

"Well, look at you Everyone knew you were going places way back then," I joked, pulling hi what ten years did In the picture he was tall and handsorin on his face A little leaner than he was now, of course; just the tiniest hint of a laugh line here or there

He looked at the picture and smiled ruefully "I can’t believe they put those pictures up How e you back then"

"It’s funny, seeing this now You knohy I got this one?"

"As opposed to Most Fuckable? Because you haveinto business witha bit

"I’m sorry, Simon," I breathed as he pulled ht

He was silent for aat the picture He took a deep breath I wondered whether I should tell hi under my dress; there was a dark corner not too far away--

"No, it’s okay," he said "It’s actually been nice to think about these things again Makes it seem not so far away"

"Far away, my ass Far away is Istanbul," a feirl with closely cropped jet-black hair, a nose ring, several eyebrow piercings, and the reen eyes I’d ever seen The tiny black dress, fishnet stockings, and Dr Martens took your eyes to her body right away, and when you put it all together, the girl was a fking knockout With killer arm ink

"Istanbul, where you left my ass," she finished

"Viv Franklin," Si up

Uh-oh

"Left your ass? Like hell! My job was over, you kneas leaving You were just too involved with that tour guide to notice"

"You never could hold your liquor"

"Hold this"

"Ha! In your drea her ar her around and actually patted her on the ass I wasn’t wearing underwear, but I could still kick so her down but keeping his arly around her waist, he turned back to irlfriend--"

"Girlfriend? You?"

"--Caroline Reynolds," he finished, releasing her to tug ht," she cackled, s for my hand I shook it, not sure what else to do

"Nice to

"What are you doing now? Working for your old "

Oh, she was a ?"

Oh, she was a writer?

"Yeah, I just sold a new app to one of the big guys Niiiiice paycheck, knohat I’?"

Oh, she wrote an app for, wait What the hell did she do?

"I bet," Simon said "You know, I ran into one of your brothers when I was in Cairo last year He was there working on so deal"

"Oh, you know reatest"

"Yeah, your brother was not on to the latest and greatest when he snuck so You wouldn’t believe the trouble I got into when I--"

"What the hell is going on? What do you do? Where did you two go together? And who the hell was putting pn in your backpack?" I yelled, for the third tiet out more; my party manners were out of practice

"Sorry, babe Viv and I went to high school together--"

"Obviously," I said, in a quieter tone Viv just looked at Simon like he had just lassoed the moon and stuffed it in her bra Which was already pretty full; for a tiny person, she had a great rack

"--but I hadn’t seen her for years, until I literally ran into her in a bar in Instanbul"

"And spent the next week trying to weasel intouy," Viv chioing to stop

"Yes, and the night I allegedly ‘left her’ she was uide like the world was about to end" He grinned, ru her hair like a kid sister

Kid sister--I can handle that