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It’s Phyllis Stanhope. She’s smiling, but her eyes are red and puffy. “Take a girl to dinner?” Just like that. “My boyfriend dumped me, and I need some cheering up.”
🫢😏
Well, Billy thinks, you can look at the aftershave on mine. You can even use my toothbrush.
NASTY.
bigpapi982: No transfer of funds yet. He wants to know where you are. Billy texts back under one of his own communication aliases. DizDiz77: People in hell want ice water.
HA
By then I could see that it wasn’t just the hat that had come off; the top of his head was inside it.
OH! how fun
Billy doesn’t care if it rains, sleets, snows, or shits bananas.
When he wakes up the girl is standing over him, wearing the T-shirt he got her into when he put her to bed. And holding a knife.
absolutely love that for her
He could tell himself everything happens for a reason, but that’s goofy bullshit for people who can’t face plain unpainted truth.
:/
Except that’s probably not all the truth. Do we ever tell ourselves all of it?
I guess everybody’s got an itch that only money can scratch.”
He thinks about calling Alice, only because he’d like to hear her voice and thinks she might like to hear his.
i do not support this blossoming relationship
She starts to go in, then looks at him over her shoulder. Her face is solemn but calm. “I love you.” Billy doesn’t even think of lying. He tells her he loves her, too, then goes into his room.
tsk tsk tsk
“I’d like to write stories of my own.”
who is cutting onions?
Because you can have things the way you want and I want you to still be alive and in the story you are and always will be.”
She stands looking across the gulf of cold air between this side and that, hands in her pockets, thinking she could create worlds. Billy gave her that chance. She is here. She is found.
