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Her brown eyes stay locked onseconds before she expels an exhale and takes the ht is lifted froh for me…eventually You always do"

I nod "No more silence between us I want you to know that you can contact et pushed to the side"

I feel her head nod againstwith tears when she pulls back and she stubbornly wipes theher, that is

"You wanna go get soood pizza place a few corners away frolance at the clock Three minutes is all I have until I return to Olivia and I need to explain everything to her I don’t want her waiting a second longer than she has to

"I have to get back upstairs…"

Maddi’s pretty face contorts into a cringe, like I’ve given her too much information "Sorry, I should’ve known you’d have company"

"It’s not that kind of corape fro nails "It’s always that kind of company when it comes to you"

"Not this time," I reply and I even smile a little "She’s different"

She cocks her head to the side, like an adorable puppy "Isdown? I want to rape, bounces pasther tiny arress Olivia is unaware of Maddi She knows her as the stripper I flipped out over and having that sa to help anyone

"You canto pull a stripper off a stage"

Maddi frowns "She doesn’t know I’ to tell her in--" I glance at the clock "Forty seconds"

She flashes her pal backwards "Then don’t let lad you ran into ht It’s nice to clear the air"

I s?" I ask "It’s late, crash on the couch for the night"

She shakes her head, not slowing her pace to the door

"Can’t," Maddi calls over her shoulder as she opens the door "I have to meet Kye at three am Love you, bro"

She steps out and closes it behind her, leaving ht, I rip my shirt over my head and bolt for the stairs I clear them one, two--no--three steps at a time and slam to a halt before I reach the door I take a second formy shirt to the floor Inall night Darryl knows better than to show up here tonight He knows Olivia is the only person I want to be around right now and when I sleep,unanswered, he’ll know that I’m okay because I’m with her

The door creaks a little as I open it and slip through, locking us in a pitch black roo over a bunch of random clothes as I make my way over to the bed "You awake?"

"I…I think so" She yawns and I hear the bed sheets ruffle before a choked yelp and finally a relieved exhale "Shit" She breathes "I almost fell off the bed"

I chuckle under "

I lean forward, ertips brush against the mattress and I push forward until the palhten et h When they pool at my feet, I kick them--somewhere--and slide onto the bed On my side, the fabric remains cool and untouched, but when I slip under the blankets and shuffle toward Olivia, it’s war I reach out and touch the bare skin of her sto next to me in her underwear has me hard and ready My blood pools in the only place it knohen she’s around and the pressure hurts I pull her againsther head right into the gap betweento keep a rather eager part ofto tellher ear "I did"

"Then please start…you’re the only one who can take away the sick feeling in irl She’s been so worried this whole time I need to irl I love, the only girl I’ve ever loved and the only girl I’ll ever love

"I really wish tonight didn’t happen…I wanted you to have fun"

"And I did have fun," she counters "Until we got to the strip club--I think I’ to stay away froht, not enhance it"

I see there’s no point in warirl was my sister"

"At the strip club?" The disbelief is clear in her voice "Your sister?"

"Yeah Maddi…it turns out she’s a stripper at The Spearave hershe never takes her clothes off for cash ever again"

Olivia pulls back fro to decipher my expression in the dark When she realizes it’s too dark to see anything, her hands fly to ht you--"