He pulled his phone from his pocket, checking that he was at the right stop. If the address that he had found on the city’s intranet was correct, hi...s destination was nearby.Jamie pushed his way through the throngs of people, heading into the Old Town, the glittering glass and steel of the skyscrapers slowly giving way to older brickwork. When sea levels had begun to rise in the twenty-second century, many of the coastal cities had been largely abandoned, new construction beginning on modern. The three of us jumped at a knock on the door. ‘Everything all right in there? I thought I heard someone yell or something,’ said a voice out in the hall. It was Colleen’s boss, Harry. Colleen and I stared at the still bottomless Katie, as she scrambled to get her pants and panties untangled and back over her hips. ‘Yep, all good…I just stubbed my toe on this stupid table!’ Katie responded back. ‘OK, well, are you guys done soon?’ ‘All done,’ Colleen said as she walked toward the door to. ‘Good, come over to my place. Wednesday night we can drop the façade.’ ‘Okay, I’ll be done at the gym at about seven thirty.’ She bit down on her bottom lip and looked at him for a moment. Finally she nodded and he got up and left. It left a bad taste in his mouth. He was pissed. He knew that he shouldn’t be, it was her job to tell him what to do, but it still pissed him off. It drove him mad, he went over the conversation in his head again and again and each time she was a bit more. ”“And where is that?”“Jess, will you marry me?” I asked.“Yes, I will,” she said with a smile.“That was easy!”“Now the hard part starts,” she said.“Actually, no. We just did the hard part. The rest is just talking it all out. You could easily have left me or I, you. We’ve both made mistakes and now we’re going to fix them. Admitting the mistakes is the hardest part.”“Which is exactly what the counselors told me when I first arrived in Lewiston. I have a lot to tell you.”“I’ll say the same thing.
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