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“Rob, grab our clothes!” I pointed to the room where we’d changed.

“On it.” He ran into the room and we kept running. We pushed out the side of the building, laughing hysterically.

“Chicken,” Mason said and plopped down on the stairs. He started double fisting the meat.

“I got mashed potatoes.” I sat down next to him and he scooped up a handful of that too as I stabbed my sword through some chicken. Why didn’t people still use swords as utensils? It seemed perfectly good to me. But the cold concrete under my ass did not seem as good. “Brrr my ass is cold.”

“Brrrrr,” Mason agreed.

“Ew,” Matt said as he pulled the lid off his. “I should have opened it first. Who serves a whole tray of wilted asparagus?” He set it down on the steps next to him as we started feasting.

“Where is Rob?” Mason eventually asked.

I ate more chicken off my sword and frowned. “I don’t know. He was right behind us.”

We looked over our shoulders at the door.

“He probably got arrested,” Matt said. “He was naked.”

I stared at him. “We’re all naked, Matt.”

“I’m not na…” his voice trailed off when he looked down. “I don’t remember that happening.”

Mason and I both laughed.

“I love college,” Rob said as he pushed through the doors behind us holding a bag of our clothes. “I knew she’d give good head.”

He had lipstick prints all down his torso.

Mason laughed. “High-five!”

Rob high-fived him. “What did we get? Oh, score.” He grabbed some chicken.

“I need my clothes,” Matt said. “I’m naked.”

“You’ll never catch me!” Rob yelled and started running again.

“What the fuck,” Mason said with a laugh. “I’m going to tackle his naked ass.”

“You’re going to tickle Rob’s naked ass?” I asked.

Mason laughed. “I’m pretty sure I said tackle.” He set his chicken tray aside. “Give me that sword.”

I tossed it at him and he caught it with one hand. He lifted the sword over his head and sprinted after Rob.

Chapter 32

Tuesday

I smiled at the sound of Dr. Clark laughing. “I know, right? It was a great night. And I haven’t even gotten to the party yet.”

“James, what happened to trying to remember the bad moments as well?”

“Those were bad moments. Mason poked through his leaf and was giggling like a schoolgirl. And Rob was about to be slain with a sword. And Matt got asparagus in his chafer.”

“And you?”

“I was having the time of my life with my best friends.”

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