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"What’s funny, Larue?" she quips

"You, Gidget You think I don’t knoho Gidget is? Please" I say it the way she did earlier, with et before she was on RetroTube every night"

"You do not watch RetroTube!"

I cross irl back when I was a boy She’s hot"

"It’s the pigtails, isn’t it?"

"Mue…" Rook covers her h God, she’s beautiful when she’s laughing "… and her feet When she talked on her little pink phone her feet had this whole other conversation going on"

"Oh et fan! Who would know that?"

I openup soon The one you’re doing is called TRAGIC, right? We have the STURGIS one and then the GIDGET one I’ve been researching that little teen-flake for months now"

"So which one, Sandra Dee or Sally Field?"

"Definitely Sandy but Sally has way ree When I was a kid I wanted to be Gidget so bad Who’s got the contract for that job?"

I look at her and it sinks in

"Let uess, you can’t be both TRAGIC and GIDGET"

"Two totally different worlds, Rook"

She just shrugs and goes back to ers are ain, content with how this afternoon is playing out She’s fun and easy-going She’s not offended when I flirt and she flirts back

Water rushes down my neck and I juot me wet!"

"Sorry, Larue But I’m just a trainee, you can’t expect me to be a professional like you on the first try"

I whip my shirt off and wipe the water off my neck "Are you done withher head coyly "Did I do you right?"

I walk towards her and she holds her hands up and shrinks back into the corner She’s laughing so I know it’s all in fun, but the defensive positioning bothersstalked Like she’s used to guys co at her with fists