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His driver is playing with his phone alk up He raises an eyebrow at rabs it I don’t notice the way the people stare at thein a black Lincoln Town Car I do notice the way Shell beams and tosses her hair about

"Try not to be too obvious" I whisper, as Stuart gets into the front seat

"He's just so hot" She leans in and whispers back Her lips sloss She always smells nice Sometimes her clothes smell like food her mom cooked That’s my favorite At least it e were in New Mexico Now she smells like me Lost smells of the many airports and taxi's we've been in

Stuart watches her in the rearview I don’t blame him I doubted my hetero-ness until I realized I wasn’t attracted to her, but attracted to the smell and the feel of her Her clothes are always soft froarlicky Italian food Her green eyes sparkle in a way I love, in a sisterly sort of way

I want listen and s, shiny dark-chestnut hair and a long, lean body I want to be her most days I'm not entirely sure if I'm her friend because I like her, or if it's that I want to be her?

Her nails are always long and polished Her lips stick out froh that you can't help but want to kiss theirl, I alanted to kiss the in ainst my mouth Well, for all of six seconds Then I needed it off of me

She flutters her eyelashes at o out with me?"

I alh at the question, "Do bears poop in the woods?"

Stuart looks at us in the rearview, "They do and I'll pick you up froht the grin that crosseshis

Her face flushes, "Okay"

She is ballsy She always has been ballsy

"You like Chinese?" Stuart is barely watching the road It doesn't make me nervous like it should He's an excellent driver

Shell wrinkles her nose, "No I like everything but You're not Chinese are you?"

He snorts "I'randuess" His Kansas accent is so obvious it isn’t even funny Not to ht have a touch of so exotic in his bloodline He looks like every other Heinz 57 Aes to look exactly like an Abercroive her a horrified look

She grins, "I love Japanese food" I a inside

"I know a place" He doesn’t seem to mind she is insanely rude

I sit in the aard silence of their rearview s to say My filter denies every one of the from the humiliation flamed across my cheeks

He pulls up in front of the outlet store

"Thanks Stuart" I say and grab the handle, but he's out of the car lightning fast and opening the door

"I can get it"

He looks uniet fired" His tone mimics my own

I nod, "Sorry"

He shakes his head and climbs back in

I elbow Shell on the way into the store, "Ass Don’t date his driver and don't ask people what nationality they are It's e He's born in Wichita He sounds like he's from Kansas You're a moron"

She isn’t fazed, "He's nuet to see him naked tomorrow I don’t care if he's related to rin

She pushes the cart and puts things we need in I put them back "I don’t want to spend too much" She rolls her eyes and puts them back in

She snatches et it back but it rings She passes rin

"Hi" I say weakly

His voice is quiet but he still es to be shitty, as always "Buy whatever you want"

"I' defensive

He sighs, "Either buy the nice stuff or I will have the entire store delivered to the dorms Better yet, I will order it all from some store no one but Paris Hilton can afford You will be the irl in dorms with your fancy espressoso deadpan and saying fabulous

"Whatever" My face is glowing red I shudder i the other students in my room

"I've asked that you not say that word It's annoying" I hear the flipping of pages or a book in the background He's working and I'm his annoyance

"We done?" I ask saucily but he's already gone I look at her and frown, "You shouldn’t do that He doesn’t even want you to haveit"