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"Hey," Buddy says after a moment of sizing up whether it was worth his while to say anything or to skulk away to a different part of the club, anywhere where she wasn't. The petulance between them existed and was driven mostly by him, but that didn't make it any less exhausting to find himself constantly on the opposite end of a battle line with someone he had once considered one of his best friends.
"If I buy you a drink, what's the likelihood of it ending up thrown over me? Because I'm pretty sure they jacked the prices up tonight and that would just be wasteful."














