I please Jeremy by eating the only food he finds for me in our apartment. Then I insist on stopping by the drug store before we go to the airport so I can pick up a sedative to help me sleep: on the flight, during the trip, and on the way back home. He waits with me for four hours in the airport until I manage to secure a seat for the trip to Hawaii. He says when I land there will be a text from Anna telling me the hotel they are staying at and my room number so I can catch a cab from the airport.

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