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I’d gotten twenty dollars’ worth of fake tattoos from a vending machine, and we were giving each other full sleeves and laughing at people in the bar.
“Okay,” Josh said, pressing a wet napkin to my forearm to stick a tattoo. “If you could turn anything into an Olympic sport, what would you win a medal for?”
I lifted the napkin and peeled off the plastic backing, looking at my new rose tattoo. “Sarcasm.”
He laughed, his brown eyes creasing at the corners.
“All right, my turn,” I said, laying an anchor tattoo on Josh’s impressive biceps. “Window seat or aisle?”
He watched me slap on the wet napkin. “Middle seat. That way I’m next to you no matter which one you want.”
Gah. This man. So selfless.
He’d said it so casually it was like thinking about me first came naturally. Like it was knee-jerk for him. My lips twisted into a smile, and we gazed at each other for a moment.
He was having a good time. He was happy. I wondered if he was this happy when we weren’t together. If he had this much fun with his friends, or the crew at work.
Or any of the dates he went on.
I didn’t. Not even with Sloan. It was different with Josh. It just was.
How many good days like this did we have left? In a few weeks, I wouldn’t be seeing him anymore. I’d be recovering from my surgery, and he would be long gone.
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