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"There’s never been anyone in my bed but me"

She rolled her eyes "Give’em on the couch I don’t let them in my room"

"Then why am I allowed in your bed?"

I wanted to tell her Jesus, did I ever want to mouth the words, but I could barely admit it to myself, much less her Deep down I kneas a piece of shit, and she deserved better Part of me wanted to carry her to the bedroom and show her why she was different, but that was also the one thing that stopped ed deep within There was soh I wasn’t sure what it was, I couldn’t give intotype, I could see, but she had lines drawn that I knew better than to cross

A better option popped intosex with et your cranky ass up, take your hot shower, and then we can study some bio"

Abby’s eyes stared me down, but she complied She nearly shoved her shoulder into me as she passed, and then slammed the bathroom door The pipes under the apart on the water

She packed light: only the essentials I found some shorts and a T-shirt and a pair of white cotton panties with purple stripes I held the a little further They were all cotton She really didn’t plan to get naked with , but at the same time it s at all

Was she a virgin?

I laughed A virgin in college was unheard of these days

A tube of toothpaste and her toothbrush, and a small tub of some sort of face crearabbing a clean towel from the hall linen closet on the way

I knocked once, but she didn’t answer, so I just walked in She was behind the curtain, anyway, and she didn’t have anything I hadn’t seen before

"Mare?"

"No, it’sher stuff on the counter beside the sink

"What are you doing in here? Get out!" she squealed

I laughed once What a baby "You forgot a towel, and I brought your clothes, and your toothbrush, and so"

"You went through my stuff?" Her voice went up an octave

The sudden laughter caught in ht in Prudezilla’s things to be a nice guy, and she was freaking out Not like I was going to find anything interesting in her bag, anyway She was about as naughty as a Sunday school teacher

I squeezed some of her toothpaste onto my toothbrush and turned on the faucet

Abby was strangely quiet until her forehead and eyes popped out fro her eyes burning a hole in the back of my head

Her irritation was aThat thought caused ht I’d enjoy

"Get out, Travis," she growled

"I can’t go to bed without brushing my teeth"

"If you come within two feet of this curtain, I will poke out your eyes while you sleep"

"I won’t peek, Pidge" Actually, the thought of her leaning over me, even with a knife in her hand, was kind of hot More the leaning over part than the knife

I finished brushingthe whole way Within minutes the pipes silenced, but it took forever for her to coh the bathrooettin’ old, here!" Her appearance surprised me I’d seen her without makeup on before, but her skin was pink and shiny, and her long, wet hair was slicked back away from her face I couldn’t help but stare

Abby reared back her arm and chucked her co all the way down the hall

I could hear her san to pound in ht, Abby," Aht, Mare"

I had to laugh Nightirlfriend had introduced h, and I didn’t want to quit Even though I couldn’t call it anything but an addiction, I didn’t dare sa better just knowing she was around There was no hope for ht e You don’t have to knock"

Abby slipped in, her hair dark and daray T-shirt and plaid boxer shorts Wide eyes wandered about the roos about me based on the bareness of my walls It was the first ti I had thought about, but Abby changing the way the roo I expected

Before, it was just where I slept A place where I’d never spent much time at all Abby’s presence made the white, clutter-less walls obvious, to the point where I felt a lesser version of e in er see on the bed "Well, co to bite you"

Her chin lowered and she raised her brows "I’y book landed beside me with a thud, and then she stopped "Do you have a pen?"

I nodded to the night table "Top drawer" The second I said the words,to finddeath match that would quickly follow

She put one knee on the bed and reached over, pulling open the drawer and fishing around until her hand lurched back In the next second, she grabbed the pen and then sla to scan over the words in the biology book

"Did you rob the health clinic?"

How does a pigeon knohere to get condoms? "No Why?"

Her face twisted "Your lifetime supply of condoht?" She couldn’t possibly argue with that

Instead of the yelling and naes of the biology book, trying not to look too relieved

"Okay, we can start here Jesusphotosynthesis? Didn’t you learn this in high school?"

"Kind of," she said, defensively "It’s Biology 101, Trav I didn’t pick the curriculum"

"And you’re in calculus? How can you be so advanced in math and behind in science?"

"I’m not behind The first half is always review"

I raised an eyebrow "Not really"

She listened while I went over the basics of photosynthesis, and then the anato I talked, or what I said, she hung on to every word It was easy to pretend that she was interested in rade