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[Salinan]Disalin!
Romy’s eyes pop open, and she blinks a few times as a warm, pink flush suffuses her cheeks. “Oh … okay. Of course. Sure.” She clears her throat and stands up, too, keeping her face turned away from me. She probably thinks she’s read the situation wrong. If I were free to do what I want, I’d tilt her face up and kiss that blush away. But I’m not free. I’m in a cage, and I stepped into it willingly.“I’ll walk you back to the theater.”“It’s all right,” she says. “You don’t have to.”I scowl at her. “I’m walking you back. It’s one thing during the day, and it’s another at night.” Plus … I am selfish. I want every minute of this, even though I’ve already ruined it.The corner of her mouth twitches. “We’d better get going then.” She looks at me expectantly, and I realize I haven’t started to walk yet.So I do. We haven’t even made it a block before my phone buzzes in my pocket. I ignore it.“You can get that if you need to,” she says.“I don’t.” It’s probably Claudia. Katie was fast asleep when I left this evening. And she’ll stay that way. I watched her take the meds with her pizza tonight.The lights of Main Street seem much brighter than before, harsh and unforgiving as we step back onto the sidewalk and head for the theater. Romy is silent, like her thoughts have swallowed her. I’d pay a lot to know what she’s thinking. But I don’t have money, and that’s exactly the problem.We reach the theater, and Romy glances up at the marquee. SORG, it says. If there’s a worse name for a movie, no one’s yet come up with it. Romy lets out a sigh. “I’d better get back in there, I guess.”“Hang in there,” I say. You have no idea how much I wish I could go with you.She stares at me for a second, then touches the tab of my zipper, right in the middle of my chest, with her fingertip. She pulls her hand back quickly, like she didn’t mean to do it. “You, too,” she says softly. And then she opens the door to the theater and disappears inside.I jam my hands into my pockets, crushing the little box of condoms in my fist, wrestling down the urge to follow her, to pull her back, to finish what we started on that bench by the lake. My phone buzzes again, and I pull it out. Claudia. I’m waiting.I peer into the lobby of the theater. Romy’s nowhere to be seen. She’s gone back to her friends. Back to her life. I swallow the lump in my throat and reply: On my way.
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