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It was somewhere close to two in the morning. The Ghostbusters had just finished a successful raid on a highschool campus, having rid it of several class III apparitions. To celebrate their multiple catches, Abby had called out for pizza and Holtzmann had broken out a twelve pack. The girls were going at both with great vigor while laughing and waxing nostalgic. Tramping through the darkened, empty hallways of the school had brought back a lot of memories, and they had begun to exchange their best stories. As the early morning progressed, they somehow managed to steer the subject toward old boyfriends and teenage romantic exploits. Patty had just finished up a wild tale about a college boyfriend who turned out to be part of a weird doomsday cult.
"What about you, Holtzy?" she asked when the others were done laughing and wiping tears from their eyes.
The blonde gave a funny exasperated grimace. "Naaaahhh, you guys don't want to hear about..." she waved her hand around vaguely. "All...that...stuff."
"Uh oh," Patty intoned while Erin and Abby 'oooh'd' in unison. "Sounds like a story there; out with it, baby."
All three immediately began egging Holtzmann on, cajoling and coercing around laughter, wise cracks, and wild assumptions. Finally, laughing and chewing on her straw absently, she conceded.
"All right, all right..." she put her hands up in surrender. "Okay. It was high school. I was this...dorky super nerd building robots and Tesla coils in my backyard." Abby laughed and Patty stared in horrified awe. "Ya know, normal teenager stuff," Holtzmann flapped a dismissive hand. Her eyes took on a faraway, misty look and a lopsided, sentimental little smile lifted her lips. "And there was this girl..."