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I knew the rules I knehere they bent, and I was good at bending the the is breaking Except for that one fuckup with Caroline, I didn’t break the rules I broke the law but not the rules

I guess when I fuck up, I tend to go epic

"Get your fingers out of there"

Krishna is bent over the h I take the towel out of my waistband and snap hiers out"

He straightens and wipes his hand on his jeans Flour released from the towel drifts in a cloud around him "I just want to see if it feels like an ass"

"That is some perverted shit"

"You’re the one who toldto touch it That’s all I ask"

"I did before I came over here"

"You did not"

"I did too I alash my hands after"

After, in this case, means, after I roll out of her bed Half the tiht shift, he’s wasted The other half the tiht, I’m pretty sure it’s both

"Maybe you should wash your hands before, quit spreading scabies all over ca temple"

"And I’m sure your woers have been, so you’re going to wash theh or I’ll smack the shit out of you"

He lifts both hands in surrender "All right, Captain, all right What crawled up your ass tonight?"

"Nothing"

Krishna scrubs his hands I clean the bowl of the mixer with a scraper and soapy water, then dry it and polish it until it shines

I like working alone There’s no one around todeal of what mood I’m in

There’s no one to make me notice I’ve been in a bad ton, I want to punch hih last ti sh and startsit with his eyes closed, his expression all blissed out He acts like such a dipshit, you’d never knoas so to let you fuck it, if that’s what you’re thinking"

"Shh," he says "I’ht Penelope"

"With the dark hair?" I ask "Kind of big?"

"Yeah"

"Jesus"

"Why, you like her? You know if you’d told me, I wouldn’t--"

"Nah, it’s fine She’s ot an ass on her," he says

"I don’t want to hear about it"

It’s not that I care about Penelope one way or the other I just don’t want to go to lab and have to think about Krishna bending her over a railing or whatever

He’d tell me all the details if I didn’t forbid hi Back hoet his ass beat on a regular basis When I ht I’d probably kill hi chance

He has a way of h Fuck htly "This doesn’t corain It’s supposed to be lu, he pinches off soer

"That’s it If you touch one et lonely without me here to keep you couettes and tell Bob to charge the suckers extra for artisanal salt"

Bob owns the bakery He hiredrush last November, but I iving hts a week He’s close to retire as the place opens and closes and there’s so me experio for it It’s a kick

Plus, the bakery is a great place toware students in the wee hours--stoners with the hter I keep up the tradition, but the ones who text or call et

Krishna’s running the finger he licked around the lip of the giantand grabs it out ofover a hand towel

"I’ve got work to do, you know"

"What have you got to do? Watch dough rise This is the ot here, I’ve been washing dishes in water hot enough to scald his never-worked-a-day-in-his-life skin

I don’t knohy I keep him around He skips class, doesn’t have a job, drinks toothat moves I shouldn’t like him

He just kind of attached himself to me

I’d planned to live by ot pere to live off campus, which saves a fortune on rooed er place, above a shop, and promised to pay the rent if I’d lease it and let hiood for it Krishna’s parents are loaded

He dusts off the countertop with the towel, hops up on it, and draws a grid in the flour on the cool irl’s sitting out front in her car again?"

I look up, which is just stupid First off, I can’t see her from back here I can only see her if I walk to the other side of the room and look out the front --and then she can see irl

Third--

"Ha!" Krishna says "You’re so easy"