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at a desk when I went to pay my insurance on the bike. It was the second time. I know I saw her two years ago at a drug store. This time, she didn’t see me - I just noticed her as I walked past. I just got a bad feeling that day in the parking lot of the drug store. I remember that,” I pulled my hood tight around my head and peered through the hole.
    “You know you do that, right?” he said, pointing at my head.
    “What?” I asked.
    “You hide in your hood. When there’s something you don’t like talking about or doing,” he answered.
    I pulled the hood off of my head and ran my fingers through my hair as he started to speak again.
    “ Well, you quit talking when the waitress brought our food. What didn’t you like? No, remind me what bothered you about the first time you met her? You started talkin’ and stopped, sorry,” he said as he leaned onto the table.
    Short of my grandfather, Mike was the best friend that I have ever had. He truly cared about me as a person, and wasn’t afraid to admit it. Since my first week here we had become extremely close and almost inseparable.
    “She was sitting at a desk. Up the hallway at the building my insurance company is in. It might have been a law office, hell I don’t know,” I responded as I pulled my hood onto my head again.
    “Okay. And the first time?” he asked, leaning onto his forearms.
    “Here you go. Will there be anything else?” the waitress asked as she set the glass of water and the bottle of beer onto the table.
    Mike looked up and shook his head, “Thanks.”
    He turned back toward me and waited.
    “It was right when I got to town. And, well, the guy she was with - I’m guessing her boyfriend, he was a douchebag. More like a dirt bag,” I paused as I grabbed the glass of water and looked up at the cables that suspended the lights from the ceiling.
    “I was on the bike,” I chuckled and shook my head as I remembered the evening.
    “I was sitting on the bike looking at the soles of my boots. I heard him scream the word slut . I looked up and he tossed something on the ground. It was an iPad. He screamed at her a few more times as I was walking over to his truck. Then he stomped the iPad and held it in his hand as he talked to her.”
    “Surprised you didn’t whip his ass,” Mike said as he leaned back into his chair.
    “Well, you know I struggle with that. If he had been violent toward her or threatening her with harm I would have. They were just arguing. But when they left, she looked at me through the window. And her lips moved,” I looked back up at the ceiling structure.
    “Her lips moved?” he turned his palms up and looked at me surprised.
    “Well, she either said help me or hurt me or something. I couldn’t tell,” I shook my head as I pressed my hood tight to my head with the palms of my hands.
    “I kind of forgot about it until I went into the insurance company. Now I can’t stop thinking of her. You believe there’s a plan for all of us? You know, everything happens for a reason?” I asked.
    “Yeah. I do. Kinda weird about that, but yeah,” he said as he nodded his head slowly.
    “I think things happen for a reason. I really do,” I said as I recalled seeing her sitting at the desk.
    “What’s she look like?” he asked.
    I thought of the day at the drug store parking lot. She looked beautiful, but she was scared. I didn’t like thinking about that. I recalled the image of her talking on the phone as she sat at the desk, her blonde hair curly and clean. She looked magnificent.
    “Perfect,” I responded , still looking up at the lights.
    “Oh, I see. Perfect . If she robs a bank, we could give that description to the cops, Dekkar. Did you see who robbed the bank? Yes, officer, I got a good look at her. Great. Can you describe her to the sketch artist? Yes, I sure can. She looked perfect, officer ,” he laughed as he tipped his beer bottle to his lips.
    “ Ripp, you’re a prick. She’s probably five foot