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The song ended, moving on to the next, which happened to be A Whole New World.
Which also happened to be known by each man.
Which was how I found myself racing a car full of teenagers to the local Taco Bell as they all sang along as if they were on Broadway.
FYI…Trance won.
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Trance
“I like your girl.” Miller said with a tilt of his beer in Viddy’s direction. “I thought she was blind though.”
I looked at Viddy as she threw a stick for Mocha and Tequila.
Each puppy would race the other, and then carry it back side-by-side, offering their war prize to Viddy to throw again.
“Yeah, she is.” I said, and then explained her condition.
“So what, she sees, but she doesn’t see?”
I shrugged, just as confused with her condition as he was. “I guess. She was seeing with half her left eye this morning, but by the end of work¸ she was down to a quarter. Seems like stress and her environment affect her vision.”
“That just fuckin’ sucks. Still, though, I like her. You should put a ring on it.” Miller said.
I snorted. “That woman right there has an independence streak a mile wide. If we got together, there’d be no way I could refrain from helping her on a daily basis, which I think she’d end up hating.”
“You want her. What more is there to question?” Foster stated.
“Whether she could deal with me being a cop. I got shot yesterday, and she didn’t handle it very well. The day before that I pulled over a teenager and he cut my face open with a pair of scissors. She didn’t handle that well, either. I’m not sure she’s cut out to be a cop’s woman.”
I didn’t know who I was trying to convince. Them or me.
It wasn’t that I didn’t want Viddy.
I did, like crops need the rain.
Every day I thought about her. She was the first thing to cross my mind every morning, and the last thing before I fell asleep at night. But I’d done the wholescared-for-her-mangirlfriend thing already. I remember exactly what it felt like to get my heart ripped out of my chest by the one woman who was supposed to be there for you through thick and thin, and I didn’t want to deal with that again.
That was why I always dated the ones that didn’t have any expectations of me.
Tillie, for example.
She was a hoe-fo’-sho’, but she gave good head and didn’t ask me for anything more.
Viddy, though, wouldn’t be up for just a quick fuck.
She’d demand things of me. Things I wasn’t willing to give anymore.
Mainly my heart.
I’d learned my lesson.
“I think you ought to give her a chance, little brother.” Miller said softly.
I glanced at him, and saw the look in his eyes.
The one that told me he knew what I was feeling.
