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Episode 649: Love MeJesse dragged his tired, achy body from his locker to the cafeteria. It wasn’t far but when you felt like he did, it seemed to take forever to get anywhere. He didn’t bother to line up for food. He found the nearest empty table, sat down, and laid his head on his folded arms with his eyes closed. A finger lightly tapped Jesse’s shoulder. When he didn’t respond, the person didn’t have the decency to go away, they tapped harder. His head sprang up and he growled, "Leave me alone!""I just - I just wanted to give you this." Caroline, probably the nicest girl in the history of the universe, and someone he’d known since kindergarten shrank away from him and quickly left the cafeteria. Jesse wanted to chase after her to apologize, but he was too tired to move. "I can leave you to this, can’t I? I’m needed at the clinic." "It’s just sealing envelopes. I did work for Michael Gable, I am a decent assistant." "If you don’t count bedding her husband." Katherine cringed right along with Lila; after all, she was no innocent on that score either. "I’m sorry, that was uncalled for, I’m having a crabby day." "And you just plain don’t like me and you feel like you’re stuck with me, when you’d much rather work with Ava." "Well, yes, but it’s Valentine’s day, I was trying to be nice." "Avalon?" Sebastian knocked on the bedroom door. "Is everything okay? You’ve kind of been in there a long time." The door opened. She had candles everywhere and wore a silky robe with her hair down. "Not to complain," he said, "but I thought we were going out." "Well, I was thinking that by next Valentine’s Day, we’ll be a boring old married couple, so I wanted to surprise you, plus," her mouth turned down slightly. "I feel like I’ve kind of neglected us lately." "You’ve just been concerned with the bookstore, that’s all." "Yeah." She nodded. "That’s all." Justine knocked on her husband’s office door and stepped inside. "Almost ready for our Valentine’s date night?" He grinned. "Yep, I just have one last thing then I’ll lock up for the night." "My feet are glad for the delay." She flopped on the small sofa and kicked off her shoes. "Remind me to stop wearing heels to work or anywhere else." "Yeah," Quent chuckled. "That never works." He finished up on the computer and joined her on the sofa. "But maybe I can do something else to help." "Hmm, a foot massage on Valentine’s Day. Yeah, I think I could like this… and more."
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