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The law requires it.   Mew mew mew mew mew.   The law requires you suck my lady-dick too, but I don’t see that happening.”
    “What was that?” he asks at my window.
    I scream and practically throw myself into the passenger seat.   When my heart stops trying to leap out of my chest, I lean back behind the wheel.   “Holy shit, you almost gave me a heart attack.”
    “Here,” he says, handing me a yellow slip of paper.
    I snatch it out of his hand.   “Did you give me a ticket?”   My voice is two octaves higher than normal.
    “No.   It’s just a warning.   But next time, it’ll be a one hundred and twenty-five dollar ticket, so keep your …”
    “Yeah, yeah, I heard you the first eight times,” I say, starting my bubbly engine.   “See you later, officer whatever.”
    “It’s Officer Dickson.”
    I start laughing uncontrollably.   “Of course it is.”   I can’t wait to get back to Perry’s apartment so I can tell Quin all about my awesome day.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

    IT’S BRIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY morning and Quin is in the passenger seat next to me. Perry is behind us in his truck, and we’re all headed downtown to my new studio apartment.   Moving day!   Not yay!
    “I can’t believe you’re going to sleep on that futon you got from Dave the Depraved,” she says.   “Can you imagine how much dried up total ew-ness must be on the mattress cover?”
    “Thank you for that visual, Quin.   Now if you could just shut the hell up for the rest of the day, that would be awesome.”   Up until this moment I had been all proud of the fact that I’d scored some free furniture from students leaving town after graduation, but now I’m questioning how good my score actually was.   Can sperm come back to life after living in a futon cover?
    “I’m sorry.   I’ll stop being negative.   Hey, you found an apartment, right?   And a kickass job, all in one day. You are the champion of all champions.   We’ll just put a really thick mattress pad on under your sheets.”
    “Yes, as a matter of fact, I am the champion of all champions.”   I don’t smile as brightly as I normally would being this level of champion because I haven’t told Quin the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
    I was kind of hoping I could do this move myself and never let her see my new Golden Legacy apartment, but she insisted on coming.   I’m not looking forward to seeing her reaction, but what’s done is done.   We’re almost there.
    “I hope you didn’t get a place around here,” she says, laughing.   “This is like crack-whores-ville.”
    “Actually, I did,” I say, feeling a little sick to my stomach.
    She goes silent.
    “It’s just temporary.”
    As we pull up to the apartment building, I smile as hard as I can.   “See?   It’s the Golden Legacy.   It’s like … solid gold awesome.”
    “More like solid gold dog shit,” she says, staring at the piles of trash in the bushes around the edges of the property.   “Ew, is that a used condom on the sidewalk?”
    “No, don’t be silly.   It’s a deflated balloon animal.   Look!   Squirrel!”   I point to a tree on the other side of the driveway, knowing full well there isn’t any damn furry creature in it.   No self-respecting member of the animal kingdom would be caught dead near the Golden Legacy.   Only roaches and ants live up in this hood.
    “You can’t be serious, Teag.   You have to move in with me.   I cannot allow this.”
    “It’s already done.   I paid my security deposit, and the landlord’s letting me pay my first rent at the end of the month.   It’s all I can afford right now and you know I can’t be suffocated by your family like that.”
    “But you can be suffocated by … crack whores?   Crack whores and pimps are okay but my family isn’t?”   She has tears in her eyes.
    I reach over and push my hand down her face.   “Stop that.   No tears.   You know I don’t prefer crack