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“I didn’t ask him to audition before I signed the lease.”
    Bridget ignored the sarcasm. “What does he look like?”
    “Um…brown hair, green eyes. Tall. Scruffy. Nice smile.”
    “Gee, your descriptive powers are painting such a picture.”
    “There were dimples too. Did I mention the dimples?”
    “Fine, I’ll just get the juice from Charles, I’m sure he noticed the guy’s butt.”
    “No doubt,” Lily muttered.
    “What about personality? Aside from rude and unorganized.”
    “He’s…funny,” she realized. “Sort of sweet. He’s got a big goofball dog that he’s obviously madly in love with.”
    “Ew.”
    She rolled her eyes. “Not like that, sicko. He looks like he keeps in pretty good shape.”
    “Did you notice his arms?”
    “I think he’s a runner. He was hardly out of breath at all after chasing down the dog.”
    “You noticed his arms! Good biceps?”
    “Well…” she hedged.
    “Lily Ann Michaels.”
    Lily sighed. “They were spectacular.”
    “Excellent,” Bridget purred, and Lily snapped herself out of the biceps haze.
    “What are you talking about?”
    “What? I’m saying it’s great you have a crush.”
    “I do not have a crush.”
    “Oh please,” Bridget scoffed. “You just sighed over his biceps.”
    “I always sigh over biceps,” Lily reminded her. “It’s my thing. Just like hairy chests are your thing.”
    “Ugh, I’m so over that,” Bridget muttered. “After Max, I never want to see another hairy chest again.”
    “Max had a hairy chest?”
    “Like sasquatch.”
    “Yick.”
    “To each her own. Anyway, the point is you should go for this guy.”
    “Bridget, have we not learned our lesson about getting romantically involved with the landlord?”
    “Okay, that’s a good point,” Bridget conceded. “But you signed a lease, right?”
    “Yes, but I still think it’s a bad idea. If it didn’t work out, then I’d still have to see him every day. I live over his studio, for God’s sake, and how awkward would that be?”
    Bridget sighed. “I suppose you’re right. What a bummer.”
    “It’s not a bummer,” Lily countered. “I get a beautiful apartment in a wonderful neighborhood, a handsome man to look at and a dog that maybe I’ll get to play with sometimes. You know how much I miss having a dog.”
    “That would only be a bonus to you.”
    “You’re a cat person, how would you understand?” Lily laughed at Bridget’s snort. “Trust me, it’s better all around if Nate MacIntyre and I stay just friends.”
    “Wait, who?”
    “Nate MacIntyre. My new landlord.”
    “Oh my God !”
    Lily winced and yanked the phone away from her ringing ear. “Bridge, my eardrums!”
    “Sorry, sorry, I’m sorry. But oh my God!”
    “Oh my God, what?” Lily asked, putting the phone on speaker and rubbing her ear. It was still ringing.
    “Do you know who that is?”
    “Who?”
    “Nate MacIntyre!”
    “He’s my new landlord,” Lily repeated, exasperated. “Have you been getting too close to the volcanoes? It’s not good to breathe too much of that sulfuric air, you know.”
    “Ha freakin’ ha,” Bridget said. “I mean, do you know who Nate MacIntyre is?”
    Lily dropped her head back to the desk in despair. “Bridget, I’ve had a really rough week.”
    “He’s the lead singer of Boys Will Be Boys!”
    “What,” Lily mumbled into her desk blotter, “is Boys Will Be Boys?”
    “You have to remember Boys Will Be Boys. They were the boy band!”
    “Boy band?” Lily repeated, frowning as something tickled the edge of her memory.
    “Oh my God, I can’t believe you don’t remember. I think I was in the eighth grade when they had their one big hit, and they were everywhere! All over the music channels, they had a huge tour, they were on all the talk shows.”
    “Wait,” Lily said, and sat up. “Did they used to all dress alike in those black leather pants and white pirate shirts? And was their big hit song something to do with