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"Not anytime soon"

She was silent for a ed "Sure, why not?"

"Why didn’t you take Carter back? Iyou for once that he wants hed "Because I’ain"

She pursed her lips in thought "But that’s what love is, right? It’s painful and beautiful"

"Then why aren’t you with Rome? He broke up with his fluff Alicia"

"Alyssa," she corrected with a look of disgust

"Whatever"

"I’m not with Rome because he’s a materialistic asshole now," she explained siht?"

"Yep"

"Liar"

She rolled her eyes "This isn’t aboutyour soul you’d been longing for him to do since you were ten years old"

"He was too late"

"Yet you slept with him"

I exhaled "Yeah, I slept with hiain"

"So, then, you led him on"

My eyes narrowed at her "I led him on? I definitely didn’t feel like that"

"This is what he did to you for a long ti He wanted to have a piece of you, but he was too scared to have all of you So you’d have this a sex where you felt so close to each other, and then, when the world ca more than friendship"

"Get to the point"

With a sad smile, she said, "You’ve turned into hiain Stupid fucking soap With another sniff, I looked away fro mindlessly at a spot on the tile wall

Had I really turned into hiot to be too much, she stood up and left me alone

Did I watch the sex tape?

Of course

And I was pleasantly surprised by how non-explicit it really was I h the blinds, but the vieas pretty far away, and when the person did try and zoo the trucker hat, riding Carter slowly Thank God you couldn’t hear words