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“Now, HANG UP THE MOTHERFUCKING PHONE!”
    The officer beside me is trying not to laugh. I know I’ve snapped because I’m using the word fuck like a comma. She nervously tells the girl she’ll call her back and ends her call.
    While the cop gets her statement, I text my sister. She tells me she can’t come because they’re short-staffed today, but she’ll call Sly to give me a ride to work.
    Ten minutes later, Barbie has sobbed and cried some more. Especially after she got a ticket for an at fault accident, a ticket for texting while driving and she’ll be getting six or more points on her license. She’d threatened to call her daddy and anyone else she thought would intimidate the cop, but he held his own.
    I see a familiar truck pull up and sure enough, Clay climbs out. “Hey, girl, you okay?”
    “Where’s Sly?”
    “He was in the middle of a meeting with the sponsors so you got me instead. You okay?” he asks again.
    “Yeah, I’m fine, just need to get to work,” I say, exasperated.
    He nods. “Okay. Did you call Serge to come get your car?”
    I nod. “Yeah, they should be here any minute.” Just as I finish saying that, Serge’s wrecker pulls up. While I’m grabbing my purse and the few other things I need from my car, Clay speaks to the driver. After they finish speaking, he motions for me to follow him to his truck. Once we’re inside, he looks over at me. “So which hospital are you at today?”
    “I’m at Memorial today,” I say casually as I stare out the window. “Thanks for picking me up though. It has been a shit-tastic morning before this happened.”
    He waves me off. “It was no problem, what else has happened this morning?”
    I shake my head. “It’s just Murphy’s Law shit, you know?”
    We sit awkwardly quiet until we pull into Memorial’s parking lot.
    “Thanks again, Clay. I didn’t want to be super late.”
    “Anytime, Firecracker, anytime.” As I’m about to shut the door, he calls out. “Hey, will you need a ride home tonight?”
    I fidget nervously. “Um. No, Kara said she would pick me up.”
    He nods. “Okay.”
    I shut the door and make my way into the hospital.
    As soon as I reach the pharmacy, I wave to the ladies working the counter. I make myself a new cup of coffee before I go into the actual pharmacy itself.
    I notice Lucille leaning against the counter, “What’s up, Lucille?”
    She turns back to her work. “So I got to officially meet that little hottie Clay Gibbs. He’s teaching my self-defense class. I tell you, Jadie girl, if you don’t attack that slab of man meat, you’re an idiot,” she says very casually as she scans some document. Like she just told me the coffee was ready kind of casual.
    I snort. “Well, if you must know, I’ve had him before. It’s just…we aren’t like that now. We’re friends.”
    “The sexual tension in here the other day says otherwise,” she huffs.
    “Look, I’m finishing up this last little bit of school, then I’ll look into relationships. I don’t have time for one right now.” I try to steer away from the conversation.
    “What makes you think that boy’ll want a relationship?” she says as she plants her hands on her hips.
    “Cause that’s what he wanted before. That’s why we didn’t work,” I say quietly before letting myself into my sanctuary.
    ~*~*~
    As if today couldn’t get any worse , now I’m sitting in a bar with my sister. She picked me up from work and declared it ‘Girls’ Night Out’ because Chelsea isn’t pregnant. The last GNO we had, Chelsea was a very uncomfortable pregnant woman who couldn’t come. So my sister, still being in the happy part of pregnancy, decided to be our designated driver for the night.
    Kara looks over at me. “I invited Gia, I hope that’s okay.” She gives me an unsure smile.
    I shrug my shoulders. “Yeah, that’s fine. Why wouldn’t it be?”
    “Well, you know.”
    I shake my head. “No, I don’t. So she and Clay are fucking,