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public. Maybe my luck will turn around and they are getting ready to leave and I can have their table. I look at my tray and sigh, here goes nothing.
    “Royce, assholes. What’s up?”
    Asshole number one speaks first, “my dick if you’ll be around later tonight. What’s your going rate?”
    Before I have time to react and let the first tear well up, Royce kicks his chair, “get lost Jake. And you don’t ever talk like that to Kingsley again. I will end you if you do.”
    “Whatever man, if you want to waste your time on a slut be my guest. Come on Brad.” Asshole one and two leaves the restaurant.
    I want to be upset with what Jake said but the fact that Royce just stood up for me has me rendered speechless. “Have a seat Kingsley, we need to talk.”
    His wanting to talk can only mean one of two things. A he wants to get back together or B this is about Kline. “Okay, I’ll eat you talk.”
    “How are things, you still dancing?”
    I nod that I am while I spear a baby tomato with my fork and bite in. I dab my chin with a napkin since he’s clearly waiting for more of an answer. “I’m good still saving up for school.”
    “That’s good. I’m glad. I mean I’m glad you still want to go to school that is. Look I’m sorry about the other night. What I said at the fight. I was being a total dick.” He reaches across the table and takes my hand. I want to deny him the right to touch me, but it’s hard. He’s the only guy who’s ever remotely cared for me other than my brother. “I want you back Kings, I miss you.”
    “Royce,” I pause and take another bite of my salad while debating on the right way to say this. “Why do you want me back? You dumped me. Remember?” Royce and I first met at the gym my brother trains at. When we first met he was in a bad place. It was a long time before he opened up to me about what it was that kept him so guarded with me.
    Royce was in love once before me, with a girl named Elizabeth, but he wasn’t the only one. His best friend whom I have never learned the name of, because Royce always would leave out his name, loved her as well. It tore their friendship apart. Long story short Elizabeth was killed in a car wreck. Royce and the other guy were pressuring her to make a choice. She took off driving while distraught, and when she crashed her car the trauma killed her, but the most fucked up part is that when she died she suffered a miscarriage. Elizabeth was carrying a child, which no one knew she was pregnant with. When she died, Royce and the other guy were left not knowing which one of them was the father or who she was going to choose. Royce has never been able to forgive himself or fully be the man I deserved because of his guilt. He thinks if he would have stepped aside and let his friend be with her…she’d still be alive. The accident wasn’t Royce’s fault though, or the other guys. Elizabeth had no business getting behind the wheel of her car while she was so hysterical.
     
    “Yeah, I know but I miss us. I miss your smile, fuck I even miss the way you laugh. This is hard for me Kings to even ask but will you take me back?” He rubs my cheek lovingly with his rough, calloused hand.
    I take too hard of a drink of my soda, and nearly choke for a moment. It would be easy to fall right back in with Royce, but just because he misses me doesn’t mean I am ready to forget the past three months since we’ve been apart. Royce has made no secret of his bachelor lifestyle full of booze and skanks at the gym and the fights.
    “Royce, I wasn’t expecting this from you. I thought maybe you wanted to talk about Kline or something. I need to think about it. I just need time.”
    “I get it I fucked up. Can I call you this weekend? I’m not fighting. We could watch Kline’s next fight together.”
    “You hate Kline.”
    “Hate is a strong word. I just don’t like him very much, we disagree on some things. Just say you’ll think about it. You know you want