"Careful!" said Three-Piece. The girl slowed down, but wrapped her arms around me.

"Johnny, you're okay," she said. I felt her hot tears on my chest and I wrapped her arms around her.

"The jury is still out on that, but I'm alive," I said. I looked up at the people in the room. "I'm sorry, but I have no idea who any of you are, and I'm sorry that I wandered down here without getting dressed."

The girl's hands dropped to my ass, and Cyndi chuckled.

"Laura," she said.

"Okay," the girl said. She wiped the tears from her face and backed away from me.

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