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around for a clock in the room and don’t see one. “What time is it?”
    “After twelve.”
    “In the afternoon?” I ask, sitting up, then quickly lay back down as my head spins and my stomach turns.
    “Yeah, baby. You sound horrible. Where are you? I’m coming to get you. I want you with me while you’re nursing your hangover.”
    “It’s alright, Jake. I’m just going to sleep.”
    “Please. I want you with me for the remainder of the weekend.”
    “I won’t be any fun.”
    “I don’t care. Now give me the address.” I tell him Julies address, and after having a shower, I wait in the lounge room where Julie is sprawled out on the couch looking like death.
    She mutes the TV when she sees me. “Doesn’t your body hurt? Why are you dressed?”
    I sit down on the couch, lifting her feet and placing them back on my lap. I need to sit down. The room is spinning. The shower helped some, but not much. “Jake’s coming to pick me up. He wants to nurse me back to health.”
    “Aww, I want to meet him. Will he be coming around here? When are you moving in?”
    “Yes. You will be meeting him. He wants to meet you, too, and I don’t know. He may be here. He has his own place. As for my stuff, I’ll bring it over during the week.”
    “Cool. If you need help...” there’s a knock at the door, “let me know,” she continues on.
    I remove her feet from my lap and answer the door. “Thanks. I will.” I open the door to see Jake standing on the other side, looking clean, neat, and alive.
    “Hey, you.” He leans in and kisses me.
    “Hey.”
    “Come on. Let’s get some food into you.” Jake drives to a cafe not far from his place, where we eat breakfast and talk about the fight. “You think Beth told him?” he asks, surprised that she may know. We have been careful about being seen together.
    “When she told me about her and Brandon, her eyes flicked to you, and I don’t know, maybe I’m just being paranoid. I don’t see how he could have found out any other way. I’ve only told him your name and that we met at a bar.”
    “Baby, it doesn’t matter, ok? If she was going to say something, she would have by now. Maybe she just wants to see what type of reaction she’ll get out of us if we know that she’s seeing him.”
    “Why would we care, though? I know that I don’t care who she is seeing.”
    “You seemed pretty upset when she told you,” he quietly states.
    I take a deep breath, “I was. I mean, Beth tried to make a move on Brandon in front of me when she first met him, before she knew that he was like a brother to me. I asked him not to sleep with anyone that I work with. He promised me that he wouldn’t, and that’s why I was so upset.”
    “Beth tried to make a move on me too, so had Anita, Alicia, and a few others.” He shrugs as if it’s nothing.
    “They hit on you?” I ask, shocked.
    “I showed no interested and I never reciprocated. Those girls are always flaunting who they have been with.” 
    I nod. Every Monday they talk about their weekend sexcapades. “So you’ve never been with anyone at school?” I have to ask.
    “Just you.” He squeezes my hand as assurance.
    ***
    I spend the remainder of the weekend with Jake. He is so attentive to me, it makes my heart swell. Sunday afternoon comes around, and the realisation that I have no clothes for work dawns on me.
    “Why don’t we just go and buy some new ones, if you don’t want to go back to the apartment?” Jake suggests, already getting his stuff together to head out.
    “You want to come shopping with me?” I ask, astonished.
    “It’ll be fun.”
    Cole
    “Is she here?” Brandon pushes his way into my apartment before finishing his sentence. I go to ask him who he’s talking about, when he calls her name, “Erin!” He opens and closes doors as he goes searching through the apartment.
    “She isn’t here. What’s going on?” I ask, slightly panicked.
    “I can’t find Erin. She hasn’t come home