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“What did you two dress up as?”
“I was Orlando Bloom’s character, Will Turner, and Avery was um… I can’t remember her name.”
“Elizabeth Swann?”
“Yes.”
“Keira Knightley played her and she did a great job of doing it too.”
“Yes she did.”
“So I have to ask you how it went with Avery that night.”
“It was a disaster.”
“What made it a disaster?”
“Avery, of course.”
“What’d she do?”
“Besides getting drunk off her ass, she also got pissed off.”
“About what?”
“Two things. She didn’t win best female character costume and she also got jealous of the way I was looking at the woman who did win. I swear to God, I was looking at her costume. It was great! Hell, I looked at the men’s costumes too, comparing them to mine.”
“You’ve never been able to win with Avery. You can’t do anything right in her petty mind.”
“Nope, I can’t and I never wanted to be in an embarrassing situation like that with her again. That’s why I’ve never attended another one of Bash’s private parties.”
“Like—was she just standing next to you and looking pissed off or what?”
“That and she also got mouthy with the woman who won the best female character costume. She was dressed like Elizabeth Swann, too, but she put a whole lot more effort into her costume, makeup, hair and everything. Avery half-assed getting into character-slash-costume just like she does with everything else.”
“I’m so sorry, Zac. You don’t ever have to worry about me getting drunk off my ass or being jealous about the way you happen to be looking at someone, and you also don’t have to worry about me getting mouthy with someone who did something better than I did. I’d only ever get mouthy for one reason and it all has to do with someone being mistreated.”
“I know. I’ve witnessed you doing that very thing during court and also when Avery showed up at Mystic Bar. Your mouthiness was controlled, though. You were precise with those arrows that you shot. You knew exactly what you were doing.”
“I just do what I do.”
“And it comes naturally to you, Joan of Arc.”
“I suppose it does. I like to think I got it from my mom. She was so sweet-spirited but she was also fierce when it came to not only protecting others but also drawing a line in the sand about her boundaries.”
“I have no doubt that you got it from your mom and probably several other of your fighter ancestors.”
I smiled thinking about what Zac had just said, then decided to go deeper into a subject that he and I had covered before.
“Slight change of subject. I wanna ask you aspiritualquestion.”
“Okay.”
“Do you reallybelieve we’re soul mates?”
Zac chuckled. “Yes. Why?”
“I’ve just been thinking about the whole theory. The romantic in me embraces it a hundred percent, but there’s the other side of me that feels like it just can’t be possible. That two souls travel together through time to be together again. That’s reincarnation, Zac.”
