SHAWN

I wasn’t planning on telling anyone about our situation but it kind of just slipped out of my mouth and my co-worker at the restaurant, Tyrone, kind of just pulled it out of me. He had a way of doing that. 

“So who is she?” he asked. “What’s her name?”

“I can’t tell you that, man,” I said. “It’s private.”

“Fair enough,” he said and nodded. 

“But, dude, aren’t you afraid you’ll, like, fall for each other? That stuff always happens like in those cheesy romances, right?”

He quickly added, “Not that I know about that stuff. My girl always mentions that junk.”

“I’m not afraid of that,” I said calmly. 

I laughed. 

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