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The beautiful green eyes I loved so round He shuffled his feet

“Nothing,” he said “Stupid bar fight, that’s all”

“Yeah right,” I smirked

“Seriously,” said Chase “I was in a bar, had a few drinks… and had it out with an old friend”

“Bullshit” I dabbed at his eye with a clean tissue from my pocket “You’re an Ao,” I said “You don’t have any ‘old friends’”

Chase let out a short laugh, then looked to Noah “Wow She’s good”

“Too good,” Noah admitted

“Good enough to tellto lie about so as stupid as a black eye?”

There was an aard pause as the ain

“There’s nothing really to lie about,” said Chase fina

lly He took the bag back fro out the breakfast sandwiches “I was at a bar—”

“Which bar?”

“The Norlance froain, but it was too late

“The Normandy Inn,” I finished for him “Go on”

Chase shrugged “And that’s it, really I wised off to the wrong guy You know I’m a wise-ass That part’s indisputable”