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I laugh out loud “Huge Like porn-star standard”

She chuckles “Figures It’s always the skinny guys with the biggest dicks”

Thirty oodbye as they wish rab the box of cookies Marta o to the corner and get a bouquet of pretty flowers for Ryan’s o pick up Ryan

I can’t believe I’ to meet his parents Parents who probably won’t like me just because I’m not deaf

I text Ryan before we get there, so that he’s standing on the sidehen the car arrives He doesn’t wait for the driver to open the door for hi a sweater the color of pluht across his broad shoulders but folds at the waist, and a pair of worn blue jeans The sne washes over me as he pulls me close and kisses me

“I missed you,” he says

I look down at the watch I’ “For all of two hours?”

“I ain, andit does whenever he looks at me like that “And the second And the third”

I look up to findat us in the rearview ive me the address?” I ask Ryan

He types it into his GPS phone app, and shows it to the driver, who then pulls out into the street traffic

Ryan reaches over and picks up the box of cookies Marta made “What’s this?”

“Cookies for your mom Don’t eat them”

He tips the box “What kind?”

“I’m not sure Marta made them”

He sets the box to the side