Bet you thought you'd never see anymore of this one. I know I have atleast two I need to be working on but I felt inspired to just go ahead and post it. I've had it for a while and said what the hell. So here is part 1 of two of the continuation of one of my favorite stories I've written so far. ENJOY! I OWN NOTHING OF OTH
MINE
Going Strong
Brooke Davis has pretty much got me wrapped around her finger. Two years. That's how long I've been with this girl and I have loved every minute of it. After a huge fall out and subsequent reconcile she has been all MINE. I still see how Felix looks at her and it does nothing but piss me off but the only thing that stops me from cornering that punk and beating the shit out of him for starring at my girl too long is the fact that he never really had her. Not like I have in every sense of the word. This is the longest I've ever been with a girl and not been tempted to stray or just turn into an ass and make her want to leave. I did that once and promised myself I'd never do it again and two years ago she came back to me and I haven't let her go since. We're getting the house ready to move out and it's kind of sad and shit now.
I know me and Jake will keep in touch when he hits Tree Hill back up but Owen's leaving to go back home. I can't say I'm happy about going back to Tree Hill for the summer and I know Brooke is less than happy. Rachel already left yesterday when the last box got picked up from their apartment but Brooke decided to stay back with me and "help me" finish up. I knew it would only turn into Jake and Owen packing up while me and my girl barricaded ourselves in what was left of my room.
She's never met Dan and tomorrow we have to go back to face the home front and Dan has insisted I bring her. My mom just said to ignore him but I kind of want to bring her just to rub it in his face that I got a good woman and he's got nothing but his money. Brooke is all too happy to play trophy and it makes me happy that my girl still does things like this to make me happy. Hell, just last month when I was sick and feeling like shit she made sure to get all my assignments, talk to my professors and email in all my papers so I could get everything in on time. Even with all that she still managed to cook, clean and make sure I ate and took my meds.
I love this girl. It makes me wonder what will be in store for us in the future. Nate and I were talking about that yesterday and Haley , in a not so subtly I might add, told me I should be gearing up to ask our mom for THE ring. The one that belonged to my grandmother and it is a good one but I'm not really in the place where I can ask her because here I am still selling dope part time and about to start back up at my Uncle's shop and I can't get my book off the ground. I'm also a little worried now because she's been kind of pulling away from me the last few days and I hate it when she goes in shut-down mode. It means a huge fight is brewing and that is the last thing I need when we head back to Tree Hill.
Anyways, getting back to this asshole Felix that Is staring at my girl's ass. I can't stand that fucker. He's cornered her at least once and she didn't tell me, Haley did. I almost went and beat his ass then but Haley convinced me it was fine and that Brooke handled it but I still don't like him looking at her or even being in the same room with her. We've been at this party for an hour and I'm getting tired of waiting on this fucker to show up. This guy calls a few hours ago and I set it up to meet at this party. Chance is usually late so I figure this would be perfect timing for Brooke to have a little fun while we wait for him to show up.
She's on the dance floor with some of her cheerleader friends and where they try to dance sexy and fail, she succeeds. I am so going to enjoy the sway of those hips later back at the house, maybe the car, hell we may even just head to the pool house in back and have at it back there. Julian usually keeps the place clean for his hotties he wants to bang but not bring to his bed. I'm thinking it may be a possibility but here lately she's been a little standoffish. I want to enjoy her dancing because I know she's doing it for me. It's like she's calling me to come to her with the way her body moves to the melodic sounds from the speakers.
Before I know it I'm right up behind her and letting her grind her sexy ass body on me and I really, REALLY want to just say fuck it and disappear somewhere dark and private with her. She spins around to face me and her arms lock around my neck when the music changes from some pop shit to that 'Quickie' song. Couldn't have come on at a better time.
"Havin' fun Broody?"
"I am now. So what will it take for a guy to get you alone?"
"I don't know…" she says playfully, "my boyfriend can get super jealous so that may not be such a good idea."
"He doesn't have to know, you could be my little freak for just a few minutes."
I can feel her body freeze up a little but I kind of just brush it off.
"Luke-"
"No, right now I am a guy, who has been watching a girl dance, and baby I am all worked up. You think you could handle that for me?"
"I think you may want to put some ice on it." She shoots back ion a less than enthused tone.
"Come on Pretty Girl, don't ruin the fantasy."
"What, you picking up some strange whore at a party and having gross, nasty anonymous sex?"
"Brooke will you just chill, that is not what I was talking about."
"Seems like it was. You know what why don't you go act out your little fantasy with someone else, I'm not in the mood." She spits out as she pushes me away and walks further into the crowd.
I can still see her and it looks like she's about to cry but I know what ever has been up her ass she won't share yet. Probably nothing. Anyway I chill the rest of the time and Chance still hasn't called. Brooke is back to dancing on the floor and doing a really good fucking job of turning me on in the process and it only works to piss me off that I know I can't go over and touch her like I want to. Then I absent mindedly look around the room and who the fuck do I see looking at my girl?
Felix the prick.
I see when he locks eyes with me and then he looks away but a few minutes later I look back and that asshole is still watching her. I give it five seconds and if he doesn't take those eyes off her by then I am beating his ass. Just as I'm about to get up it's like she has 'Lucas is about to go ape shit' radar. Haley comes out of nowhere and stands in front of me. Gotta love my sister for always having my back, even when I'm about to be a jackass.
"Where do you think you're going?" She says planting her palm into the middle of my chest. I huff a little thinking I can side step her but Haley is quick and knows when I need someone to back me down. "I don't think so. Lucas you know how Brooke feels about you starting shit."
"Then tell him to stop looking at her."
"Luke he is just looking, probably regretting that he let her go but-"
"Fucker didn't have a choice."
"Luke it's been two years, let it go. You won."
"I know but…something about that guy just pisses me off."
"You and Nate both, god what is wrong with you two. I swear I have to play defense whenever he's in the room with either of you. Hey, come out side and take a walk with me."
"I'm not leaving her in here by her-"
Before I could finish Nate's hand landed on my shoulder.
"Don't worry I got her."
"Thanks baby, now you be on your best behavior. I do not want to come back in here with Felix having a bloody nose and you with a broken hand."
"Don't worry so much Hales…I won't have a broken hand."
Haley shoots Nate a warning glare and she starts to walk out. This is why I love having a guy like Nate with my sister. He's trustworthy. He's loyal and above all else he loves Haley and Brooke as much as I do. I feel good leaving her under her brother's watchful eye. I walk out back with Haley and just when I shut the door to turn around she hits me dead in my chest. Guess those years of beating her up worked to make her stronger than I thought.
"Oww, dammit Haley what the hell was that for?"
"That was for not asking Mom for the ring yet and this" she says hitting me again, "is for not telling me you weren't because now Mom is all excited that you're going to."
"And where the hell would she get the idea I was going to?"
"I asked her if she was excited about giving you the ring or sad to let it go and she says she didn't and then she put two and two together and figured you were going to ask and now she's all excited about you settling down."
"Why in the hell would you mention that to Mom, damn Haley now she's probably going to say something while we're there."
"Probably, but I thought you were going to ask. What happened?"
I was going to ask, you know just to have it handy but the way Brooke has been acting the last few days it's been a little confusing. She wants me one second, then she's pissed, then I catch her sad about something and she's back to being pissed if I ask her what's wrong.
"I don't know, Brooke has been just…I mean we're good…I think but …it's just she's been kind of distant-"
"Lucas Eugene Scott, if you start this shit again I will kick your ass myself."
"What?"
"You're starting that whole 'I'm pushing you away since I think you're pushing me away' thing with her and it's only going to cause problems so Just- Just ask her!"
"I want to but what if she says no?"
"She won't say no she just… she just have some things going on with her right now and-"
"What kind of things?"
"Just things Luke."
I could tell Haley was holding something back by the way she was acting flustered but I decided not to push, she wouldn't tell me anyway. However this does worry me because that means something is wrong with Brooke and if my sister knows and I don't, it must be big.
"Haley do I need to be worried about her?"
"Probably. But you know Brooke, she hates to come off weak. Just talk to her Luke."
I nod knowing my sister wouldn't steer me into a conversation that would hurt me because for the past few days I've been thinking… well I've been thinking that either she's about to break up with me or she cheated. Neither of those would be okay with me. On one hand if she's just getting bored then I could deal with that better. I'd still have a chance but if she cheated then that is something I'm not sure we could come back from. I hope it's just me being paranoid.
"Now let's get back in there and relieve my boyfriend from Brooke duty." Haley says smiling and linking her arm in mine and leading me back inside, however the first thing I see is Nate squaring off with Felix. He's nose to nose with the guy and he looks pissed. I look just behind him and Brooke is looking worried. The one thing that sets me off is that smirk that asshole Felix has on his face. All I hear Nate say as we walk up is "You're lucky I promised my girl I wouldn't break my hand on your face."
Too bad for Felix I didn't make that promise. The asshole didn't even see it coming. My fist hit his jaw and then his face hit the floor and that pussy was out cold. A few of Felix's football buddies break in and push me back while I shout a few words of warning for him to back off as I shake my hand loose to shake away the pain.
It's then I look up to see three things. One Nate is smirking, he does that when things go his way and it's obvious whatever Felix did to get his worked up he's glad he won't get the bitch out for giving him what he deserved. Then I see Haley. She's shooting me a glare similar to the one my mom gives when she's disappointed and I know I am gonna hear it the whole way home. Then I see Brooke is not standing there anymore. That really worries me. She usually is grabbing me and pulling me out the door before the cops get there but she is nowhere to be found. Instead Haley is pulling me as I survey the rest of the party to find my baby. When we get outside the speech begins.
"Dammit Lucas what the hell did you do that for!"
"I was-"
"Shut up. Now we have to worry if that ass is going to press charges!"
"He won't-"
"You don't' know that Luke, dammit this is the last thing she needed!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Brooke-!"
When she stopped mid-sentence I knew something bad was up.
"Brooke what Haley?"
She doesn't say anything just turns to get on her phone when Nate walks out the front door and pats me on the shoulder again.
"I knew there was a reason I liked you."
"Yeah."
"Hey don't be so upset about that" he says as he points over his shoulder, " I set him straight."
"I'm more worried about your sister going MIA."
"What?" he asks concerned as he looks over at Haley who is now talking very hushed on the phone with who I assume is Brooke.
"Haley talking to her?"
"I guess. What did I hit that prick for anyway?"
"I turn for two seconds to grab some water and when I turn back around he's all up on her and she's trying to push him off and when he doesn't move I get in between them. I don't know what he said to her but she was almost about to cry and that was enough to make me want to break his neck then."
"Then he did deserve it."
"Yeah, he was talking shit about having Brooke whenever and that's when I pushed him back and told him he was lucky Haley pulled the leash on me."
That didn't sit well. Whenever Felix got cocky Brooke was always ready to knock him down a few pegs, especially in public. This is really starting to worry me. Haley gets off the phone looking pissed still.
"Was that my sister?"
"Yeah, she's on her way back to Luke's."
"Then I'll see you two later."
"Hold it Luke," Haley says grabbing my arm. For a small chick she's got a good grip. Guess she gets that from my mom. "Do not argue with her okay?"
"Why would I argue-"
"Just promise me you won't argue and you'll let her talk."
"Haley what the hell is going on?" I ask really fucking annoyed now.
"Just go home and talk to her. I told her to just tell you what's going on."
"Haley what the hell is going on with my sister?" Nathan is now annoyed with the secrets between the girls.
"I can't tell you, she has to."
I nod and walk off to find my car only to realize Brooke had the keys and must've taken my car. Now I'm pissed. Now I have to leave the party, miss out on a sale, walk home and probably get my heart ripped out. When I finally get there the lights are on and I figure everybody is home. My car is parked kind of crooked so I know she's probably really upset. When I walk in Jake is the first to stop me.
"Man whatever you did you really need to fix it cause if she calls Rachel I'm in the dog house with you."
"I didn't do shit."
"Sure you didn't."
"I didn't."
"Whatever man just go up there and fix it. She almost knocked Owen down off the latter when he was taking down the pictures off the wall."
I nod and so a slow walk up the stairs knowing that I am not about to enjoy what's about to go down. I start thinking about all the strange things that's been going on with her and I start to brace myself. The late calls, the disappearing acts she's been doing back to her apartment, the blow up she had at the party and the way Felix has been looking at her lately, it all adds up in my mind that she must've slept with him. Sure we fight, we fight a lot but we always make up.
Always.
Now I'm going back in my mind to think of any night when she wasn't with me or if her body felt different. I'm wracking my brain and by the time I come to I'm walking up the stairs to my room. When I walk in I observe her jeans are thrown across the bed and the bathroom light is on. I walk to the door and lean on the frame and see her sitting on the edge of my bath tub with her head hung low. She's playing with her fingers which means she nervous.
"I'm gonna let the fact you left me slide if you tell me what the fuck is going on with you."
Her head shoots up and she looks surprised. Guess she thought she'd have more time to think her words through carefully.
"Hey…" she said so quietly. I see the red in her eyes and catch as a few tears start to build in her eyes. Fuck this is going to hurt.
"Spit it out." I know I sound like a dick but when you know you're girl is about to tell you she gave her body to someone else it kind of does that to you.
"I…I um… Luke I-"
Then she starts to cry. I hate when she does that. It breaks my heart to see her in pain. I stay strong though. She won't get any comfort from me.
"Brooke. Listen whatever it is you have to say just say it. I think we both know what it is so let's just fucking get this over with."
She looks slightly confused and then goes back to looking at her hands as she toys with them to avoid looking me in the eyes.
"I've been trying to just forget it. Push in the back of my mind and not let it get to me but I can't anymore Luke."
"So now you decide to unburden your conscience."
"God Luke I know you're mad but- "
"Mad. That's an understatement. I'm fucking pissed."
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you okay! Felix was just there when I needed someone-"
"So fucking Felix was just the luck guy! Damn Brooke what the hell where you needing anyone for. I'm HERE!"
"BUT YOU'RE NOT!"
She shocks me. She's in so much pain you can hear it in her voice but she's angry. At who I don't know.
"You name one fucking time I haven't been there Brooke and don't you even dare bring up the shit from two years ago."
"Remember when I asked you about moving in together?"
"Aw for fuck sakes Brooke. I told you I didn't think I was ready and now you use that as an excuse. That's bullshit."
"I was afraid okay."
"Of what! I loved you!"
She looks like I just stabbed her and now I realize I did use love in past tense.
"So I was right. You don't love me anymore now that you know. I told Haley to not say anything!" She yells as she shoots up from the tub and tried to walk out the bathroom past me.
I'm not having this running shit. Not now. If we're ending then she's going to be woman enough to end it with me tonight.
"Move Luke." She yells trying to push past me unsuccessfully but I don't budge.
"Sit the fuck down. We're not done."
"We are done. You don't love me and I guess I'm just going to do this on my own you fucking asshole."
"Asshole, you're the one who did this!"
"I didn't do anything alone Lucas!"
"Don't remind me!"
"I guess I have to! This was not just on me Lucas Scott, this is on you too."
She says pushing past me finally and making her way to my room. I'm still not done though.
"Get back here. You need to tell me how the hell you sleeping with Felix is on me!"
She stops dead in her tracks. Fuck I hate arguing with her when she's just in her panties and tank top. I usually have trouble staying mad with her like that but somehow I can manage this time. Helps when the girl dressed like that is ripping your heart out and blaming you for it. She slowly turns and the tears are back.
"Is that what you think I did?" she asks almost hurt.
"You all but confessed It back there."
"Well listen real good because this is me denying it. I HAVE NOT EVER SLEPT WITH FELIX!"
Now I'm confused. Did she sleep with someone else?
"Brooke…" I say walking toward her because now I'm worried I'm losing her and I really need to feel her in my arms but she just slaps my hand away when I reach for her.
"Baby-"
"NO! If you think you can just push this off on someone else Lucas you got another thing coming."
"Brooke I don't understand. I thought you were going to tell me you cheated on me but-"
"Fuck you Lucas. I have been nothing but loyal to your sorry ass."
"Then what is it. Whatever it is just tell me!"
She opens her mouth to probably yell at me again but closes it and the tears are back. She walks over to my bed and sits. I walk over to her slowly and kneel in front of her. I look her in the face as she looks down at her knees.
"At first I just ignored it. I didn't want it to be true I guess because if it was that would change everything with us. I mean I asked to move in with you and you all but shoot me down and that was all I could think about. What if? What if you leave me? What if I can't handle the answer? What if it's positive?"
"Huh."
I watch as she lifts her eyes to mine ever so slowly and she looks me in the eyes and says…
"Luke. I think I'm pregnant."
Oh.
Shit.
You know how people look back on moments in their life and can point to it and say that is where everything changed…well I just had of those moments. She's looking at me now for assurance but I'm just shocked into silence. A baby? Fuck that would change everything. I realize now she's been calling my name and I snap back to reality, to this girl in front of me. The girl who may be carrying my baby.
"Luke…say something."
"You said you think you are?" She nods no slowly and breaks eye contact with me. "So you haven't taken a test?"
She nods no again and I breathe a slight sigh of relief. Maybe it's a false alarm…then again we do fuck a lot so it is more than a possibility she got knocked up during one of those nights when I just had to have her and consequences be damned. Well looks like I got a big consequence slapping me back in the face.
"We'll do it together. Okay. It's okay Pretty Girl."
She finally looks up at me with her eyes filled with tears and I see every bit of insecurity.
"What happens if it is positive Luke?"
Very good question.
A couple of options run through my mind. I'll probably throw up. Maybe even faint. Possibly we could break up from the strain of having a baby. One of us won't graduate. Maybe everything works out or maybe everything goes to shit. I settle with…
"Then it'll be positive."
"I'm scared."
"It's okay baby. We'll be fine either way."
"How can you say that! You don't even want to live with me. Now we're going to be okay having a baby?"
Now she's off the bed and pacing the room. I can't seem to get off my knees. I feel like if I try to stand up I'll only end up passing out. Brooke would make a good mom. Me on the other hand I have no clue how to be a dad. It scares the shit out of me.
"I mean what the hell am I going to do! I can't be someone's mom! Hell I can barely take care of a plant!"
She's ranting, almost hysterical and I watch as she paced back and forth on my floor and something clicks on in me. Right here, in front of me, this girl whom I am now resigned to think IS probably carrying my baby is freaking out and I find it to be so adorable. I figure she probably is pregnant with all the mood swings she's been going through. I finally rise up from the ground and sit on the bed and just watch as she continues to rant about the possibility of being pregnant. She looks gorgeous. What the hell am I scared for. This is possibly the best thing that could happen to me. I get the girl and a baby. I find it hard but I decided to interrupt her rant.
"Brooke-"
"And what the hell am I going to do about the squad! I can't be pregnant and cheer!"
"Baby-"
"I mean where in the hell is this kid going to live! We don't even live together. We have school-"
"Pretty Girl-"
"You don't have a job-"
"BROOKE!"
"WHAT?"
"Baby, come sit down, your freaking out."
"I think I have a right to be" she says as she puts her hands on her hips. Damn she looks sexy-no Lucas stop, that's what got you two in this mess in the first place.
"Just come sit down…I mean if you are pregnant I don't need you stressing out my baby."
She scoffs at my attempt to lighten things up and I smirk knowing that this will probably work out. She walks over to the bed and sits next to me and I pull her into my arms and lay back. There we are, the two of us…possibly three…and we're laying there together and all I can think about is that I should've proposed when Haley was pushing a while ago. Then she wouldn't feel this freaked out about having a kid with me. I don't blame her though, I am pretty unstable.
"Baby we are going to be just fine."
"Promise?"
"I promise. "
After a few minutes I feel it when she relaxes in my arms and she's asleep now. I wait a while before I get up and head out the closest drug store and buy a pregnancy test, a few actually. The lady in front of me at the store was eyeing me pretty hard…so was the group of girls that were perusing the condom isle. I'm kind of glad Brooke isn't here because if she was we probably would have been thrown out with the way those girls are looking at me. God help me if we do have to deal with hormonal Brooke.
Once I check out I decided to stop by the burger joint around the corner from us and grab some food. I'm sure she's hungry. When I finally make it back I find that she's still asleep. I put the food down on my dresser and make my way to the bed to wake her. I lay down next to her, facing her beautiful face and kiss her softly. She stirs and moans my name in her sleep which only make me feel like nothing can touch me. If the test is positive then my Mom will get her first grand kid. If it's not then we'll know that this is something we can face together when it does happen. I kiss her again but this time she deepens the kiss and her arms wrap around my neck as I shift to lay over her. She feels so good, tastes so good, damn how did I get so lucky.
"You up baby?"
"I am now. What's that smell?" She says stopping mid kiss and pulling away from me. She has this look on her face like she's trying to not explode with happiness and I know it's because I got her favorite burger.
"That would be food. I had a feeling my baby would be hungry."
I say it but I realize the double meaning behind it now. I watch as she smiles at me and leans up to kiss me quick before shoving me to the side and making a b-line to the brown bag that contains the wonderful smell. She opens it and it's like a kid at Christmas. What catches me off guard is she empties the contents on the dresser and goes at the wrapper like her life depends on it.
"Slow down baby."
"I can't I am starving. I haven't eaten anything all day."
"Why?" I ask frowning. She shouldn't be starving herself if she thinks she's pregnant.
"I haven't been able to keep anything down." She answers back with a mouth full of burger. I see her gulp it down and then pretty much suck down the milkshake I had brought home for me. Not that I mind sharing it's just she usually won't touch em'. She used to tell me if I wanted to date a fat ass too bad because milkshakes where the drink of the devil. I see her slowly stop eating and then look over at me.
"What?"
"Nothing it's just… I've never seen you eat like this."
"Trust me Haley has seen it and before you say anything this doesn't mean I'm pregnant okay. I've been sick and not eating and now I'm hungry." She said matter of factly with another mouthful of burger.
I just hold my hands up in surrender knowing that a girl and her weight is not a topic I want to get in to with her. Last time she thought I called her fat my balls hurt for a few days. Even though she apologized for the hit to the jewels and offered to kiss it better I learned a valuable lesson; NEVER say anything remotely close to calling her fat. It won't end well.
"Baby uh…while you were asleep I went ahead and went to the store and uh…bought a few things."
"Like what?" she asks still engrossed in her burger that is almost finished by now.
"Like a pregnancy test."
She stops and straitens up and looks over at me.
"Lucas…I…do we have to do it now?"
"I think now is as good a time as any."
"I don't have to pee" she rushes out. Way too fast and I think it's because she's scared if the test comes up positive I still may leave.
"Well when do you think you might need to?"
"I don't know." There's that annoyed tone again.
"Well don't you want to know?"
"No." That pout is just too sexy for words. I know she's nervous but I think this is something we better not put off.
"Well what happens if you are? You willing to wait till the kid gets here to find out?" I ask laughing, she is being a little childish about this.
"Sounds like a plan to me."
"Pretty girl.." I say getting up from the bed and going to hold her. " Not taking the test won't make it any more true or less true. I mean even though it could be negative I haven't seen you drink."
"No. You know … just in case."
"You haven't smoked."
"Again no…just in case."
"Well don't you want to know if all that just in case stuff is for a good reason or nothing at all?"
"I vote we wait."
"I vote we take the test now and find out…and since that's my kid in there he votes with me." I say placing my hand on her belly. I never noticed it before but she does have the tiniest of pudges. Maybe it's the burger she inhaled and maybe not.
"Whoa, first off, boy? And secondly if there is a kid in there it's an automatic vote in my favor meaning possibly fictional baby and I vote take test later."
"How much later?"
"Much later…like when I feel more comfortable with the idea."
"And when will that be?"
"Never." She groans out almost frustrated with her own insecurities. I pull her into my arms and fell it when she grips on to me tight.
"Brooke you don't have to be scared. I'm not going anywhere and if you do have my kid in there I think we probably should know sooner rather than later. I mean look at it this way; the sooner I know the sooner we can tell everybody and the sooner we can start spoiling you rotten."
"You'd do that?"
"Yeah baby. Whatever you want from my mom's café, whatever clothes you need, whatever the baby needs we'll get it."
"Luke you don't have any money?"
"I'll work triple shifts if I have to at the garage, it won't matter. Nothing but the best for my Pretty Girl."
"Since when did you turn into such a sappy guy. What happened to the guy who made deals to get women to go topless in his hot tub?"
"He's still here. He's just thinking about what it's going to be like to be someone's dad."
We both start laughing. I think the idea is ridiculous and so far out there that I have no idea what we're going to do if she is but whatever the stick says…we'll face it together .
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