Chapter 151

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The guys received an update from the maintenance man when he told them an engineer from the elevator company was expected to arrive within the hour.

Mason was thankful the atmosphere inside the elevator had calmed significantly. Although there were long silences, they didn’t seem uncomfortable. One or the other would speak up, recalling some of the highpoints of the time they’d spent together as teenagers. Neither felt the need to dredge up any of the less pleasant aspects of their friendship.

“Do you remember Lorraine Little?” Mason asked at one point.

“Uh, no, don’t think so.”

“Yes, you do. You dated her for a while. Tall. Straight black hair.”

“Oh, yeah. She was your date when we, uh…”

Mason smiled, “It’s okay.” Mason didn’t want to bring up the disastrous double-date episode, either. “She had figured us out, you know.”

“Huh?”

“She’d worked out that we were boyfriends.”

“Really?”