We’d settled the argument, agreed to disagree, and moved on from it. Mostly because neither of us had liked the feeling of being on opposite sides. For Ivy, she behaved as if it was something unnatural and unthinkable. For me it was something that I was familiar with. Future Ivy and I had had more than one fight, I just didn’t want to do it. So we both dropped it. She tried to be a little less paranoid, and I avoided optimism…. Okay, that’s petty. I know that’s petty. Let's call it, mmhn, avoiding placebo’s… and now I sound terrible. Okay, final try. I was trying to be straight with her, and it seemed to be working well for us. On the other hand, back to the more important things that we had to do, it seemed that our little bet had gotten… a little bit out of control. I thought it was flip
