JEROME“Hey, Ladies.” I slid an empty chair over and sat down at their table.Two pairs of eyes stared back at me, one gave me an uncomfortable stare, the other, I wasn’t so sure.Knowing Lisa, she was asking me to get up. She didn’t know if it was okay for me to join them the way I did, and to choose seating beside Stacy.Lisa blinked more than twice as she desperately tried to yell the words ‘GET UP!’ without yelling them.“Stacy and I are tight now.” I threw my hands around Stacy’s shoulder and pulled her to me. “Aren’t we?”She rolled her eyes, exhaling the anger.She wasn’t really angry with me, she just didn’t want to show how excited she was that I was intruding in their moment.“Stacy, I didn’t tell him we would be here.” Lisa tried to vindicate herself already.She wasn’t taking my word for it.“Yeah, she didn’t,” I backed Lisa. “I just happened to run into you guys at the ice cream parlor on a hot Sunday afternoon. You didn’t ha
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