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me that I’m going to
have to sleep on the floor again!” Michael exclaimed.
    Trish knew that something was growing
between Michael and Jess, and she didn’t want to get in the way of that, so she
did the only thing that she could think to do.
    “No, you and Jess can take the bed.
I’ll take the floor,” Trish said.
    Michael looked extremely surprised, but
it was Jess’s desperate expression that was the most comical. She shot Trish a
rare angry look. Michael, on the other hand, had broken into a full blown
smile. Well, that was certainly a turn around. I went from sleeping on the
floor to in the bed with Jess, Michael thought and then walked into the
bedroom. Jess followed him very hesitantly. She didn’t quite trust Michael.
Sure, they were good friends, but they had never slept in the same bed before.
She was a little worried about what Michael might try when they were alone in
the bedroom. Trish found a spot close to the couch, grabbed a small blanket
that was lying over the back of the couch, and sat down.
    “Oh, come on. I’m not going to let you
sleep on the floor. You can have the couch,” Lee said.
    “No, you’re still sick,” Trish said.
    “Look, you’re either going to take the
couch or we’re both going to be sleeping side by side on the floor.”
      Trish appreciated the offer, but the
truth was that he didn’t have to trade places with her. As tired as she was,
she could have slept anywhere.
    “You aren’t all that bad, you know,”
Trish said as she flopped down on the couch.
    “You must be losing your ability to
read people,” Lee joked.
    “Well, I don’t know what it is, but you
seem a little different since we were imprisoned.”
    “There’s something about thinking you’re
going to die that kind of changes you.”
    “How so?”
      “It puts things into perspective. You
think back over your whole life and see how much time you’ve wasted. I don’t want
to waste any more of my time.”
    “I can relate to that. Sometimes I
wonder if I’ve actually done any good in my life at all.”
    “You bought everyone some time back at
the prison. If you didn’t have good in you, you would
have just stuck to your kidnapping story and gone back to your old job. Thank
you for sticking with us, by the way. If you hadn’t bought us that time, I
doubt we would even be here right now,” Lee said.
    “You’re welcome, and thanks for trying
to make me feel better. Anyway, you know all about my past, so I just have to
ask. What do you regret so much? Do tech guys really have such troubled pasts?”
Trish asked while laughing.
    “I don’t really have a troubled past. I
just want to find someone to spend my life with. I’ve spent my entire life
surrounded by people who make me feel somehow different, or even broken in some
way. I want to find someone who’s like me so neither of us has to feel that way
ever again.”
    The living room was silent for a moment
as Trish searched for the words to say to such an unexpected and deep thing
from Lee.
    “Can I give you some advice?” Trish
asked.
    “Yeah, sure.”
    “Don’t search for someone who is the
same as you. You should search for someone who can accept everything about you.”
    “I really don’t think that the majority
of women are going to be very accepting of me. In case you haven’t noticed, I
don’t exactly click with most women.”
    “I wouldn’t be so sure of that. You
have a lot more good qualities than you know.”
      “Really?”
    “Yes, and you can trust me. I can read
people, remember? Just keep being you, and good things are going to happen for
you really soon.”  
    “I hope you’re right,” Lee said and
laid his head back.
    Where did that come from, Trish
wondered. Lee was an okay guy, but six months ago she wouldn’t have had a clue
of how to give relationship advice and would have cared to give the advice even
less. These guys are making me soft, she thought as she turned over and drifted
off.  
    In Michael