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Playlist: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” Leanne & Naara

AT SOME POINT RECENTLY, MY LIFE BECAME AN AUSTEN NOVEL. AS IF THE BOOK

itself might be capable of some kind of sexually repressing black magic, I’m

tempted to throw Sense and Sensibility out the window and hope it sends Ren

bounding into my room to make an honest woman out of me.

It’s been beautiful, glorious, dizzying torture. Days of cuddling and finger

tangling and making out and dry humping and Holy Saint Francis of Assisi and

His Furry Animal Friends, I need Ren to use that big old stick God gave him and

score with me already.

I bypass two of the guys in the hallway, breezing into the training room. I

need to find Ren, because it’s four o’clock. Which is when my plan of action

kicks in.

I’m not the world’s best at lying on the spot, but I am damn good at

premeditated subterfuge. In precisely three minutes my stomach will start to

hurt. I’ll let Ren known I’m going home for the night, that I’ll miss the game.

Darlene’s in on my plan and made sure one of the PR interns is prepared to

at least keep up with Twitter and Instagram during the game, so we’re covered

on that front. It’ll only be the second game I’ve ever missed. The first I missed

was because I got a horrible chest cold—thank you very much

immunosuppressant medications—and finally had to admit defeat, laid up on the

couch and yelling hoarsely at the TV while Pazza’s head swiveled furiously

between the hockey game and me.

“Seen Ren?” I ask Lin.

He shakes his head as John tapes his ankle for him.

“Schar? Have you seen Bergman?”

Kris glances up from heel stretches. “Negative, Frankie.”

Muttering under my breath, I storm out of the training room and roam the

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