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chance. You may lose her, hell we all may lose her. As her best friend, the man who loves her, and the only one who can truly save her you have to keep trying for you for her, for us all. I’ll take care of the bar. I know people.” Dean’s eyes shoot to the door and I hear Zoe stir. Dean chugs his beer, whispers “thanks” and is gone in the blink of an eye. He can be quick as hell when he wants to be. I down my last few swigs and begin to stand up.
    “Gav, are you here,” she calls out in a groggy voice. I step in front of the opening to the apartment to answer her. “I’m out here ZZ. I’m glad you are finally awake. I am starving!” I say and Relic jumps up from her resting place and wiggles her huge body in between my legs and inside the apartment. Zoe gasps and then groans as the dog leaps onto the futon and begins to lick the side of her face. She looks down at herself as she sits up. I realize she has come out of her towel under the blankets and I drop my eyes to the floor. “Oh, my!”she exclaims. “Gav, you didn’t peek did you? You pervert!” I shake my head and try to hide the reddening of my cheeks. “Of course I didn’t ZZ, I have more respect for you than to do that. I might have been tempted if I hadn’t had to pick the lock on the bathroom door and found you in a heap on the floor.” I sighed and smirked.
    She grinned and shook her head at me. “You still have those pills the doctor gave you for me? I have a splitting headache and I’m starving as well.”
    “I’ll get your meds you should get dressed and I’ll pull the pizza out of the fridge.” “Sweet, cold pizza is my favorite! I’ll be back in a minute!” Zoe says ecstatically.
    I grab the ice water and pretzels and head to the kitchen. I pour the ice water into the sink and toss the pretzels back on the counter. Moving to the fridge to get the pizza I smell her fragrance before I feel her arms snake around my waist and see her head pop out from under my arm. “Well, someone must be feeling better.” I say. Zoe looks up at me and without thinking I gasp and I know my eyes flash to gold and back in my surprise. Her brow furrows at me. “Your eyes switched color” I tell her. “Really?”she asks. “Yes, you need to tell me what happened and why I found you locked in the bathroom and in a heap on the floor.” She slides up in between me and the fridge. She stands on her tippy toes and gives me her famous puppy dog eyes. “I will, if you feed me!” She grins. I take a deep breath and close my eyes. I hate it when she is this close it’s so difficult to control myself. I can’t keep myself hidden and my will melts into a puddle. She still has her arms around my waist so before I can’t give myself away I pull her into my chest and tell her “you have to earn it ZZ. You’ve been difficult.”
    “Whatever Gav, feed me now!” Her stomach growls loudly and we both laugh. I take a deep breath inhaling her irresistible fragrance and press my lips gently to her hair. “You have to stop scaring me so much, ZZ.” I mumble into her hair.
    “Oh my God, feed me you oaf!” She demands. I pick her up and toss her over my shoulder. She squeals in delight and giggles. I grab the pizza in one hand and a bottle of coke for her. flip her down onto the futon and set out the pizza. She grabs her coke and greedily begins to drink it. I just shake my head and go back into the kitchen. I grab my remaining two beers and her meds from inside the cookie jar. We almost never have cookies so she would never look in the cookie jar.
    I return to the couch and flop down beside her. She eyes my choice of beverage and asks “don’t you work in a little while?” “Nope I answer. I got a week’s worth of vacation and you drive me to drink woman!” I answer grinning from ear to ear. “I do not! Now what type of pizza did you get?” she asks lifting up the lid. “My favorite, EVERYTHING!
    Woohoo! Thanks Gav! And my favorite movie!” she