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“And she’s still this angry?” I asked incredulously My eyes narrowed “Were you still, umm…”

Brody turned over his pillow bitterly It was slashed too “Was I still what?”

“Hooking up with her?”

The words left my mouth reluctantly As painful as it was, I had to know

“Shit no,” Brody spat

“Becauseher on…” I continued “Gave her reason to think you two ether…”

It was another thing guys did: see you after the breakup Sleep with you after the breakup, when you were lonely and vulnerable and looking for any reason to get your foot back in the door of your past relationship

“Not even a little bit,” Brody said

“He’s telling the truth,” Sayid offered, co her like the plague We’ve all been, really, but he’ll basically leave the apartment whenever she comes home”

The look of pure disgust on Brody’s face toldhim pick up his room

“Ask Darren if you need to,” Sayid added “He’ll vouch”

We grabbed the garbage, and the three of us went about righting whatever we could Sayid explained how he and their third roo berserk, breaking his roo her out, but by then the dae had mostly been done

“She saw the… photo,” Sayid said meekly “And she went nuts”

I followed his gaze, to where a dozen pieces of a photograph lay shredded next to a broken glass franized it: the photo of Brody and I together, on our first date

“You put up that picture of us?” I asked,a little “And this is what happened?”