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Boxer briefs

Boxer briefs that landed directly next to my face

But apparently, clothing hadn’t been the only thing Ezra had been holding

He was holding a box of condoms, too

Why do I know that particular detail?

Because the box smacked me in the face, and, like the loser my nose was, it started to bleed

Hea box of condoms On My Nose

Dear sweet baby Jesus on a cracker

I grumbled and held onto my nose as I felt the blood start to pour out

The only good thing I could say about it was that it was one of those value sized packs, not just the small ones that had like twelve condoht condoms before, so who knew? Maybe the value size was really the se

The closest I’d ever gotten to the condo tampons, and even then, they were still half an aisle away fro pieces of latex

I wailed and rolled onto my hands and knees

Instead of waiting around for cleanup, and knohat a bleeder I was, I started to make ato hold over my nose

The first thing I came to once I was inside were the paper towels

Ithe stupid machine when it only spit out a small square of paper at a time

God

Anybody Anybody in the freakin’ world could’ve hit me in the nose with those condoms, and I would’ve been okay Anybody but Ezra McDuff

Shit

Shit Shit Shit

I panted into the paper and rested ainst the cool, white-tiled wall beside the dispenser

Then I counted to one hundred, hoping that would help

It didn’t

But what it did do was give

I reached fornoould be a perfect time to call my best friend, Camryn, and tell her about my humiliation

But…it wasn’t there

I closed my eyes and realized what had happened

When those condoms had hit me in the face, I’d dropped my phone to i so, had left my phone wherever it happened to be when my hand had discarded it

Garnering the courage, I walked to the door and pushed

When I opened the door, bloody paper towel still in ain, it was to find the best backside in Gun Barrel, Texas blocking the door