Scheherazade was relaxing in her apartment in Saint-Germain when she suddenly heard cars honking in the street. Annoyed that her quiet evening was being disrupted, she looked outside and saw Carlton Bao “standing on the roof of a Range Rover parked outside her building, holding up a boom box that was blasting Peter Gabriel’s ‘In Your Eyes’” (335). Four body guards grabbed Carlton and tackled him to the ground. Scheherazade rushed downstairs and assured her guards that Carlton was a friend of hers. She then took him upstairs and tended to the cuts that Carlton had accumulated from being thrown to the asphalt.

Scheherazade asked him what he was doing. Carlton told her that he was impersonating John Cusack’s character from the movie Say Anything. Scheherazade didn’t know what he was talking about but said that he looked adorable standing atop the car. She then kissed him.

Meanwhile, Charlie had spent two weeks going across the globe in search of Astrid, who had disappeared. He decided to try Los Angeles next, though her brother, Alex, told him that she wasn’t there. All that was left of her was a handwritten letter that was mailed to him along with

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