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"Jason? Do you have any idea what's
up with Alex?"
Jason stares at Lauren as an odd
tension hangs between them. He knows he's staring, and he knows it must
seem odd, but it's all he can do right now. After steeling himself a bit,
he swallows -- not too hard, he hopes -- and looks directly at her. "I'm
not sure," he says.
"What do you mean, you're not sure?"
"Exactly that -- I'm not sure. Alex
hasn't told me anything, exactly, so I--I don't know what to tell you."
She shakes it off. "All right. I
figured you didn't, but I figured it was worth a try. I thought maybe Alex
had confided in you or something. Maybe he would feel more comfortable
telling you instead of me or Courtney ..."
Jason doesn't say anything.
"But I guess if you knew anything,
if it was anything that serious, you would've told me or Court already,"
she says. "Oh well ... I guess I'll just have to give him space, or make
him feel comfortable enough to open up to me, or something."
"Look, Lauren," Jason says suddenly.
"There's--there's something I've been meaning to talk to you about."
"What is it?"
"About Alex."
She looks at him a little sideways.
"Yeah?"
"I just think ..." He drops his head
into his hands and leaves it there for what seems to both of them to be
an eternity of seconds. At last, he raises it, though he looks more at
the booth than at Lauren herself. "I think maybe you should forget the
idea of having a relationship with Alex."
Now she looks at him sharply. "Why?"
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