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Matt stepped into Biology, nodded at Dr. Dyle who was, as usual, hanging over Natasha and Tanya like they were magnets and he was an iron filing, and kissed Cindi.

"Hey babe," she said.

"Hey back at you. Did you talk to Pam? Is she ready to go tomorrow?"

"Yeah. We'll bring our dildos like you told us. Do you want us to, like, dress alike. Do the twinsie thing?"

"That would be cool."

"You're going to be there, right?"

"Not on the screen but I'll be there helping Tanya with the sound and lighting."

"Good. Because we'd be sort of nervous if we were all by ourselves."

"Don't worry, baby. I've got your back the whole way." He kissed her again before walking over to Tanya.

"Wasn't that just the sweetest display?"

"Yep. Want me to kiss you, too?"

She looked forlorn for just a second. "Yeah, right. Look, I talked to Natasha. She's not down with being your launch victim."

"Huh?"

"You know, the first girl on your show."

"Crap." That was bad news. He'd been so confident in Tanya's persuasive powers that he hadn't even bothered trying to line up a fallback. Now anyone he contacted would know they were second choice.

"Did you try?"

Tanya nodded. "Nobody wants this business to succeed more than I do, Matt."

"Yeah, sorry. I don't suppose you--"

"No. I've got to work the cameras, lights, sound, everything. I'm definitely not going to take the first shift when everything that could go wrong will go wrong."

"Shit."

"Go talk to her yourself. You've got the gift of the gab, right? Maybe you could persuade her where I couldn't."

Yeah, sure. Her best friend couldn't persuade her but some random nerd-guy was going to. Still, it wasn't like he had a lot of choice. He walked over to her.

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