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busted.
    I knew Lisa used Kyle’s car on Saturdays, so I purposely made him drive one Friday night when we were hanging out. I stashed the condom and panties in the back seat without his knowledge. The next morning, Lisa found the condom and the panties just like I had planned, but she didn’t get mad at Kyle at all. She got mad at me. You see, Kyle didn’t use latex condoms. He was allergic to the latex. Well, it didn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out who left the condom behind. I thought I had ruined my friendship with him for good. It took him almost five months to forgive me for my stupidity, and Lisa still holds a grudge.
    When I saw Wil, Diane, Allen, and Lisa standing by a courtroom entrance, I froze. I was afraid that Wil might be mad about covering for me the other night. Not to mention the fact that both Diane and Lisa didn’t care for me at all. Lisa I understood. She would probably never get over the fact that I tried to break up her marriage. Diane ... well that was all Wil’s doing. Wil had this theory that once a man and woman were married, they should have no secrets between them. So I was sure he’d told Diane all about my marital infidelities. That’s why the only person I was really confiding in these days was Kyle.
    Wil spotted me and waved me over. I felt a hell of a lot better when I saw him smile. I really didn’t feel like dealing with his shit on the day Kyle was going to be arraigned for attempted murder. I walked over and Allen greeted me with a brotherly hug. Wil came over to greet me the same way. I kissed Diane on the cheek, and for some reason I got a chill. But I couldn’t worry about that then. I walked over to Lisa, who’d obviously been crying.
    She wrapped her arms around me and gave me a tight hug. I felt her tears fall on my neck, and her sobs had me choked up. We both loved Kyle in our own ways. I just wish I could have thought of a way to tell her I was sorry for all the heartache I had caused in the past.
    “Any word’?” I asked sadly.
    “Kyle’s lawyer said he was gonna see him in a few,” Wil answered.
    I loosened my embrace with Lisa but still rubbed her shoulder as Wil gave me the details.
    “Well, what’d he say’? Did he tell ya how much bail was gonna be?” I asked. I’d brought the deed to my house just in case they decided to give Kyle a high bail. I didn’t wanna take any chances.
    “All he told me was that Kyle would be out today. Then he was interrupted by some guy with a folder,” Lisa told me.
    “Who’s his lawyer?”
    “His frat brother, Greg Thomas. You remember the guy with the panties on his head at Kyle’s bachelor party?” Allen said.
    Both Wil and I shot Allen a look. Allen was always saying the wrong thing at the wrong damn time. Lisa didn’t even know Kyle had a bachelor party.
    “He’s supposed to be a real good lawyer,” I said quickly, hoping the girls would forget Allen’s slip.
    “Yeah, he seemed pretty confident after he got that folder.” Lisa tried to sound upbeat.
    “What the hell was in the folder?” I asked.
    “I don’t know. But it must have been important, ’cause Greg ran down the hall as soon as he got it,” Wil added.
    “So, Jay, how’s Kenya?” Diane asked.
    I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. “She’s fine.”
    “I know she’s excited about the baby.”
    “Yeah, both of us are. I just hope she has a boy.”
    “All you guys want boys.”
    “Gotta keep the Crawford name goin’. But the truth is, I just want a healthy baby.”
    “I know the feeling.” Diane rubbed her baby-filled belly
    “Well, why don’t you bring her out to the house? Since y’all moved to Jersey, I never see her. We used to be so close.”
    Something in her eyes told me she knew what had happened the other night. I was kinda glad my cell phone went off so I could slip away. The last thing I wanted was Diane and Kenya getting together alone in a house. They might get bored and start talkin’ about