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“Why would I do that?”
“Because I need it.”
“You need it?”
“Yes.”
“Are you serious?”
“Yes. I know it’s a shitty thing to ask, but—”
“It is a shitty thing to ask,” Evan agreed.
“And I wouldn’t ask, but it’s for … Cat Lady.”
“You’re pulling the Cat Lady card?”
David nodded. “She loves the Barenaked Ladies.”
Evan gave him a long, extended hairy eyeball, enhanced with an aggravated sigh. “Um … so do I, you big, giant asshole.”
“Please, Dick?”
It was the ‘please’ that swayed Evan. That, and the fact he’d been wanting something better for his friend for a long time—the fairy tale and happily-ever-after—and the possibility that Cat Lady might be it, took some of the sting out of giving up his concert ticket. But not all of it, because … Barenaked Ladies.
“Fine,” Evan relented, his voice coated with sarcasm. “But you and Cat Lady both owe my ass big for this.”
“Yes, we do,” David agreed, picking up his phone to text Paige, unable to wait to share the good news with her.
DAVID: There’s been a change of plans. Something came up and Dick can no longer go to the Hootie and the Blowfish and Barenaked Ladies concert with me.
DAVID: So, you are.
Chapter 30
David looked down at the text which had just come from Ashley.
ASHLEY: Jacob wet the bed last night.
Immediately concerned, David leaned forward at his desk and frowned. Jacob had been potty trained for over a year and was very particular about being clean; the few daytime accidents he’d had early in the process had upset him a lot.
DAVID: He did? Did you let him drink something right before bed?
ASHLEY: No.
DAVID: Did he go to the bathroom before bed?
ASHLEY: I think so. But I didn’t watch him, so I don’t know for sure.
DAVID: You don’t have to watch him. You just have to ask him.
DAVID: Is he okay? Is he upset?
ASHLEY: He’s a little upset. He didn’t talk to me on the way to preschool but he hardly talks to me, anyway.
DAVID: Okay. Thanks for letting me know.
DAVID: It’s probably a fluke, or he just didn’t go to the bathroom before he went to bed, but you should probably buy some of those Goodnites for his next visit, just in case.
