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Technically I was nothing to Joe.
Just some old flame, right?
An old love that didn’t work out.
So if he wanted to flirt with Shayna.
Or grab her, sit her on the bar and go down on her…
“I’ll handle this,” I suddenly said and I jumped up.
Shayna looked at me finally. “And what are you going to do about it?”
I took a step and Joe reached for me. “Hey. What are you doing?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “You said I was too dressed down, right? So what am I doing here?”
“You showed up.”
“You called!”
“You’ve got nothing to say about the game?”
I turned and walked around the bar to go talk to Ralphie.
I really had no plan in place.
My thoughts just kept running in circles.
Joe.
Fucking Joe.
The boy I fell in love with.
The man I had been in love with.
Been? As in past tense?
Do you ever actually stop loving your first love?
Especially the way it ended…
It just stopped.
No talking. No decision being made.
It just ended…
“Hey, Ralphie,” I said when I was close enough.
Ralphie turned and smiled at me. “Did I order one of you? Hoping for someone with a little less curves.”
Ralphie cackled.
I swung my right hand and slapped him across the face.
The slap echoed around the bar, getting everyone’s attention.
