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"C’ me and a very loose Diana out into the hall As I left, Lia look

Help, Iwomen off him, twenty feet or so behind h the front entrance to the apartainst the far wall of the hallway by Diana, her hips grinding into hs, mouth suddenly hot and loose onfor a crucifixion

Where the fuck was Liaive ue lolling and sloppy, saliva everywhere I wasn’t being kissed; I was being slimed

"It’s a Diana sandwich," Nico shouted

Liam appeared in the doorway and clapped a hand over his mouth, then threw his hands in the air What the fuck? heto protest, puttingher ass with his groin, legs apart, dry hu her

I kept my eyes opened as Diana roto-rootered me and flailed with my arms in some sort of movement that I hoped communicated that I needed to be rescued

And then:

"Sam?"

I turnedinches, only to find Aht of the hall el, an aura around her

Diana sensed so me a chance to take a much-needed deep breath and I stared, slack-jawed at Amy

And then she ran

"No! Courfriend’s feewings hurt?" Diana said, co hard, instinct kicked in Off "Get Off Me," I shouted Nico lost his footing as a hundred plus pounds of his own girlfriend cah to push the out of the way just in time

"No more Diana sandwich," she pouted, her and Nico a flesh pile on the floor

The thump of Amy’s footsteps stopped abruptly as a door opened and snapped shut Outside by now, she was gone

I took two steps toward the main door, then realized hoas dressed

"Go," Liaure this shit out now I got this"

"You sure?" Nico and Diana were now dry huo of the sandwich idea

Piecing ether, I worked to look as decent as possible Liam tossed me my hat

"Wha--?"

"It’s cold outside You’ll need that"

Sprinting down the hallway, I slaht down the street, the diant, but it was no use

She was gone

What had I done?

Amy

It’s not what you think, the text read

Oh, Sa uys are handed that tells them exactly what they’re supposed to say when they have decided to fuck you over? I ignored it

Bzzzzz! The next text Please Aht

Bzzzzz! Whatever you think you saw, it wasn’t what you think

Really? I thought My eyes are ine that! Hmmwho knew?

Bzzzzz! This one was from Darla: Where the hell are you?

I quickly typed back: At home

What happened? You disappeared, she wrote back

And then, bzzzzz! It was Sa to your apartht Sam with another woan to cover the glass screen of my phone I hit ‘send’ then realized I hadn’t sent that text to Darla I’d sent it to Sa, Saain, Saain

If he really was on his way over here, he wouldn’t be able to get into the building without buzzing, and if he buzzed over and over, ould I do? I looked around my apartment It had been a safe haven, o, and now, it was a prison Better to walk the streets at night and be free than let Sao he’d gone to radio silence when I’d tried everything I could to reach hio home Couldn’t leave Couldn’t stay

What do you do when you have no options?

When there is no good choice?

You run

Grabbing my coat, I made sure I had ht wind all-too-fao

Bzzzz

The off button calledoff and proceeded to herever I needed to go to erase this fucking night

Haunted For the next hour I was haunted by twoSaht?" I had asked him "Darla invited me to a party You wanna come?"

A shadow had crossed his face and he pulled his hands back, it was like being stung The absence of his touch was stronger than its presence With half-lidded eyes he had ," he had said

Working He and I had very different ideas of orking ue-fucked by soroped by another dude at the sareat

Just not with ht Boston is filled with drunk college students, drunk e couples who come into town for the chic restaurants and expensive shows, and the ho, and I definitely stood out as an oddball: while you’d think there would befucked over by their boyfriends on a weekend night, I appeared to be the only one

If you asked me to recount that hour, I couldn’t The convenience store clerk avoided eye contact as I sobbeda candy bar The chocolate and peanut butter tasted like sour copper in es, leavesthe perfectly manicured surface, a trash can every twenty feet a reminder of the insistence on order and cleanliness

Pitching the rest of the candy, I tightened the buttons on ht turned a bitter cold that felt like a mirror of my heart