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Bring On The Theme Music

With an audacious squeal they tore away from the curb. He hastily fumbled with the seatbelt, trying to maintain some semblance of toughness as he did so. It didn’t work.

“Usually drive with grandma, do ya?” she teased.

“Just not sure we should, you know, draw a bunch of attention…” He stopped. She hadn’t said anything, but the look on her face reflected clearly enough his rapidly fading facade of machismo.

“There anything in the CD player? Cause radio stations around here suck.” He braced himself as they took a corner with more gratuitous squealing then scanned the dash.

“Wrong decade, there beautiful. I think we’re lucky it’s a tape deck and not an 8-track player.”

She smirked, though he wasn’t sure if it was cause he called her beautiful or the decade comment, “So fire it up, studly. Every get-away needs a theme song.” He thumbed the black cassette fully into the deck and winced as they nearly hit a parked Scion.

Both groaned in unison. Nothing worse than Christmas carols in May.

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Bring On The Theme Music
thebetweenspace
Posted 2 months ago

I like how she’s much much cooler than he is. Great dialogue and it keeps the tone of the prequel intact. (Sidebar: I think a word is missing in the last sentence of the second-to-last paragraph. “winced as nearly hit a parked Scion.”)
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Krulltar
Posted 2 months ago

The first line is great, and creates an amazing visual. Also, TBS is correct, that line is missing a pronoun.
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g2 (la pianista irlandesa)
Posted 2 months ago

X) I love it. But the only thing worse than Christmas carols in May are Chirstmas carols on the 4th of July. The girl does seem more hip than the guy, but I give him credit for trying to achieve macho-ness
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John Perkins
Posted 2 months ago

I had so much fun reading these two, I decided to jump in.
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John Perkins
Posted 2 months ago

I had so much fun reading these two, I decided to jump in.
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Eckhouse
Posted 2 months ago

I am hereby awsomely suggesting we amend your LoA title to include “Master of Dialogue and Details,” because it’s true and it sounds snappy, to boot.
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Ana Cristina
Posted 2 months ago

Great continuation, and I second Eckhouse’s motion, Master of Dialogue and Details.
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Ink_n_imp
Posted 2 months ago

Oh my goodness, this was a wonderful sequel! The last line about killed me!
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Stovohobo
Posted 2 months ago

I haven’t read the rest of the series, but I’m off to.
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Apostrophe
Posted 2 months ago

Funny ending. Like the comment about the 8track player and the getaway theme song. Dude you rock!