They just called themselves ProjectA, and Emily knew the drummer."Amy?"I rubbed my eyes. She smelled like smoke and alcohol. I breathed it indeeply. I...s this a dream? I swam upward through sleep, tried to find thesurface, wakefulness."Can we talk?" Sure..." Okay, talk. I could at least pretend to listen while Idozed. I was barely conscious, but what Emily told me definitely wokeme the hell up."Remember back when you were a guy?" I vaguely remember something about that, yeah..." When you first. Stop thinking of him as John your trainer and start thinking of him as Yuri Gedov. You can’t let him slip one by on you.”She absolutely beamed at me and turned back to the game as I went back outside to watch. About every five to ten rallies, I’d pop back in and tell them what I saw. I gave a couple pointers to John on how he was serving, too. By the end of an hour, they’d both broken a sweat and were working hard. They came off the court talking about how it had gone.“That was so helpful,. "Whoa, wait a minute, I'm a veritable amusement park." He let his voice get low and husky. "Hey lady, wanna ride the roller coaster?" No, but you might talk me into playing ring toss later," she let her voice get as sexy as his. "If you're good that is."He looked pained as she walked away from him and over to Stephanie. She watched him throwing away fast food bags, cleaning up coffee cups."That was him again." Stephanie didn't have to specify."Yeah." She turned her back to the doorway and tried. ‘Ah, ur, I was looking for my mom,’ I said. ‘I thought she lived here.’ ‘I’m afraid you’re mistaken,’ the woman said. ‘We’ve lived in this house for four years, ever since my husband became a manager at the Toyota plant.’ ‘The what?’ I said. ‘You must be from out of town,’ she said. ‘Uh, yeah, I am,’ I stammered. ‘Toyota built a huge manufacturing plant for component parts on the north side of town,’ she said. ‘People who’ve lived here a long time say it saved this place.’ ‘Tell me, do you know.
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