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ring.
     
     
     
    “Hello?”
     
     
     
    “Hey, it’s me.  What are you doing?”
     
     
     
    “I’m home, waiting for you.”
     
     
     
    She doesn’t sound mad.  I think about my plan to get closer to Charlie.  Do I see where that goes?  What if it goes bad and we can’t be friends?  There is too much to think about right now.  I can’t leave Charlie alone with Michael out there.  I feel like I’m just leading Steph on if I have no real plans for her and our future.  Do I have future plans with Steph? I don’t think of her in those terms.  It’s always Charlie I see myself with; everyone else is a distraction until I can get to that point with her, right?  UGH, I’m such a dick.
     
     
     
    “Brody?”
     
     
     
    “Yeah? I thought you were mad at me?”  I run my hand through my hair, pulling on the bangs.
     
     
     
    “I am.  I think we need to talk.  Now.”
     
     
     
    I can hear the sadness in her voice.  I think that is why I say, “By talk you mean make up sex, right?”
     
     
     
    “Ugh, no jack ass.  It means we need to talk, like with words.”
     
     
     
    “OH, ok.   Well I am going to watch a movie with Charlie, and then I’ll be home, k?”
     
    “Do I have a choice?  See you when you get here.” With that she hangs up.
     
                    **********
     
     
     
    Charlie stood listening at the door.  There was a long pause like he was thinking about something, hard.  He sounded so sad.  Then he jokes with her about make up sex.  He tells her he has to watch a movie and then he’ll be home.  I don’t want to be an obligation.  He should be home with his girlfriend, having (gag) sex.
     
     
     
    She doesn’t want to listen anymore.  Running to the couch, lies down and pretends to sleep.  When Brody walks in he stops in front of the couch he wakes her up.
     
     
     
    “Hey, sleepy head.”
     
     
     
    “Wow, I must be more tired than I thought.  I think I’m going to go to bed.”
     
     
     
    “Awe, what about our movie night?”
     
     
     
    “Rain check?”
     
     
     
    “Alright.   Are you going to be ok, tonight?”
     
     
     
    “You bet.”
     
     
     
    “I will leave my phone right by me. Call me anytime, for any reason.”  He wishes she would ask him to stay.  He waits, giving her a few more minutes to ask.  When she stays silent, he knows it’s time to go.  Standing he pulls her arms so she is standing with him.  He leads her to the bedroom, wishing the circumstances were different, lays her in bed.
     
     
     
     “I mean it about calling.” He pulls the covers up to her chest, smoothes her unruly curls and kisses her cheek. “Love you.”
     
     
     
    “Love you, too.” She says
     
     
     
    He walks out of the bedroom closing the door.  He doesn’t know what is waiting for him at home with Steph, but it seems that is where he is heading. Is it fate that keeps leading him back to Steph, or his dick?
     

                **********
     
     
     
    Brody left, I am not tired, and I have no friends.  When did my life become so pathetic?  Getting out of bed I grab a beer from the kitchen and sit back on the couch.  I put on Dirty dancing.  I love this movie!  “Nobody puts Baby in the corner”, classic.  
     
     
     
    When the movie is over, I stared to flip through channels on the TV, on one of the national news stations there is a report of a rape that has occurred on the west coast.  The victim is a 30 year old brunette, with curly hair.   She was found in an abandon building, on the outskirts of town.  She was hanging by a rope, around her neck.  Cause of death, strangulation. People at work who knew the victim, claimed she had been getting flowers from an admirer.  No leads on who the admirer was. 
     
     
     
    When the story ends I can’t believe what I heard.  I was panicking.  Could Michael be responsible for that attack?  I have lost my mind.  I think every bad