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"Who the fk is that?" a feht switch, and the rooht A book flies across the rooht comes on I step back out of the roo shit like crazy She’s blonde And she’s nad Completely and starkly nad Shoot

She juan swipes a hand down his face and sticks his head out of the rooainst the wall, a grin on his face Paul walks down the hallway, his stride full of swagger, and he reoes in hiht you knew she was coine hihing so hard They’re high fiving each other and listening to what’s going on behind the door

Loganto hi to surprise you"

Well, she did that, apparently

Paul heaves a sigh and says, "He wants you to go"

More thuds in the rooain Good God

"He doesn’t want you to surprise hiain," Paul says quietly, but I can hear it I want to press otten quiet I can hear her sniffle

"You don’t have to worry about that," she says with a loud inhale "I’ll never sleep with you again" The door flies open and she steps out it, and then she atteainst the wall The twins freeze, theiropen She’s almost six feet tall I’m not

"Oh, shit," one of them says

I tolerate her until a piece of spittle flies out of her mouth and hits me in the cheek "You better back the fk up, bitch," I say And I draw irl I never have I never will

Like one of those hooks on the gong show an wraps his arm around her waist, picks her up and spins her away froht her, or she’d have er at et to her "I’ll rip every extension from your head" She actually has nice extensions I’d love to ruin thele you with then, because he has her on one side and me on the other I swipe at my cheek The bitch spit on me He hands her to the twins, who try to caler at me I think he wants me to wait Wait for what? That skinny little no account whore just spit in rab it and bend it back, until he winces and er than et tired of that finger really quickly

He bites his lips together and sets me back from him Then he walks to her, takes her by the elbow and escorts her to the door She slides her shoes on as she goes, and her pants are still unbuttoned She’s going to be doing the walk of shaood bit of joy in that I’ns so to Paul

Paul turns to the twins and says, "One of you walk her ho their hands and ju up and down He calls on the one on the left "Pete, you take her" He glares at hiruets to do everything" He clunks his feet down on the table Then he changes his mind, stomps down the hallway and slams the door to his bedroom

"Pete’s not a man whore," Paul calls in the wake of his departure, deadpan

"Since when?" Sa his head back out his door "I’ll have you know-" But he shuts his lares at hian swipes a hand down his face and then grabsme into his room He closes the door behind us "I didn’t know she’d be here," he says His voice is halting and slow

I pout, crossing my aruy "When was the last time you slept with her?" I don’t knohy I want to know this

He holds up three fingers and points behind hio?" I clarify

He nods "But I didn’t invite her tonight"

"Is she your girlfriend?" I ask

He shakes his head He holds up that finger again and I roll my eyes

He leaves the room and comes back with a stack of clean sheets He jerks the slut sheets off the bed and throws them in the hallway He motions for me to walk around to the other side of the bed, and then he snaps the sheet open and ht as well

I work quietly with him to make the bed Then he crosses toto try to kiss ain But he just looks into , but clear

"I’ with you," I say

He jerks his head back, clearly surprised He steps back and shakes his head, and I think he’s biting back a sht you here to keep you safe Not to have sex with you" He sain, and then he walks out of the roooes to the fridge and pulls out a beer, pops the top of it and offers it to me At the last second, he takes it back "How old are you?" he asks, his brows drawing together

"Nineteen," I admit He puts the beer back and hands me a cold bottle of water I take it It’s cool And I’m thirsty "What now?" I ask He takes a sip of his beer

He shrugs, and goes to sit on the couch I look around The place is a mess There are pizza boxes everywhere, and dirty laundry piled up in the hallway There are dishes in the sink, and the counter is full of clutter There hasn’t been a wo time

"Can I use your shower?" I ask It has been a few days since I had a shower It’s hard to protect my stuff when I’m wet and nad, but I’m not too worried about it now

Paul looks over his shoulder and then signs so down the hallway He er and points, and I assu and head that way

I open the door without knocking and I find Matthew hunched over the toilet I move to step back and he looks me in the eye, his watery and red "Don’t tell ain, and I step in the room and close the door I open the cabinets and find a wash cloth, wetting it with cold water I pass it to him and he wipes his face He closes the toilet, flushes it and sits down on it "Fucking chemo," he says "It’s a bitch"

"Do they know you’re sick?" I ask

He shakes his head and flushes the toilet again when it stops running "Please don’t tell theh to worry about"

"I won’t"

"Did you need to use the bathrooth to stand

"I was going to take a shower," I say "But I can wait"

He gets up, groaning "I think I’ht have to barge in on you" He removes a towel from the cabinet and lays it by the sink for me