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After this little episode she’d be lucky if she still had a job Her father told her that any bullshit and she was fired She hoped that he meant any bullshit on the job, because otherwise she was screwed since she couldn’t see into it with Connor

Over the years their parents, teachers, the priest at their church, their coaches, and even the Neighborhood Watch had gone out of their way to keep the In the past ten years they hadn’t been placed in the same classroom at school or CCD at church They weren’t allowed to play on the coed teams after school out of fear that they’d beat each other with baseball bats, and Neighborhood watches all over town blew those daether

It was really annoying

They had not gone a day in the last ten years, not even when she was laid up in bed with the flu last year, without giving each other hell She still re to find Connor short sheeting her bed while she was still in it! To this day she didn’t kno he ht It wasn’t like her room was on the first floor or she left her s unlocked No matter what she did the jerk always found a way to break in and piss her off into a speedy recovery so that she could kick his ass When he was laid up for teeks after she’d gotten over the flu she’d made damn sure to return the favor

"Oh please, it’s not like you have a real job I bet your daddy," he said ly, and he was the only one with the balls to do it, "has you fetching his drinks"

She had to snort at that Her father worked her to the bone She did everything her brothers had to do and more, because she had a talent and skill with the saws that none of them could touch Every day after school, she and her brothers joined their father wherever he orking that day and they worked their asses off until dinner time Then they went home, made dinner, did their hoh she knew that her father worked them hard because he wanted to keep the with her fa her owna job that she hoped to do after high school

"At least I knohoit was a lo, but then again so was sitting on top of her so that he could pour gallon after gallon of paint on her

"Well, at least etting in her face and just like that she snapped It didn’t matter that there were twenty witnesses or that extra month of detention that would no doubt be added onto her ti look off the bastard’s face

"It was thefor hi," he muttered as he put her in a headlock and took her to the floor

Ten years earlier

"But I love you, Connor," Jill, Jen, or whatever the hell her name was, said

"Uh huh, that’s nice," he said absently as he watched the assle who’d been hanging around Rory for way too long, wrap his arm around her shoulders and kiss her "Now if you’ll excusevery i if she heard hirabbing onto his arently removed her hand from his arm and walked away He damn neared rolled his eyes when he heard her profess her undying love for him

He couldn’t help but wonder what the hell rong with her They’d had sex, not even good sex, once There had never been any proht that et so day? It wasn’t as if he hadn’t made it damn clear that he’d used her for sex

"Whoa! What the hell rong with Rick inviting you and Rory to the sah school with, asked, laughing as he held up his beer to Connor in salute