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"Where the hell do you keep the cups?" She looked over her shoulder at Mavis before quickly turning away

"Hoould I know?" Mavis didn’t look up She was threading her needle and getting ready to stitch

"It’s your house" Ava said it so calh her teeth

"No it isn’t" Mavis replied

"What do you mean it isn’t your house?" I watched Ava turn around and look at us

"I mean, I don’t own it Don’t live here Don’t stay here" Mavis looked over at Ava in exasperation "I’m kind of busy, if you haven’t noticed"

"But--you knew there was a first aid kit" Ava twisted the rag in her hand "Whose house is it?"

"An oldI knew there would beti, her attention on the wound, her words an afterthought "I saw hi helped in here by nurses one day and then out in an aht not have been aaround to search for cups and I let myself be distracted by the view of her ass as she bent over "That was a big ga?"

"Made do" Mavis stuck one end of the thread in her mouth as she tied off one knot "Here, come over here and try one"

Ava set a cup of tea next to me and one next to Mavis I saw the liquid splash over the rim as her hand shook She closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath After a second she moved closer to ?" she asked

"Cleaning out the foreign debris" Mavis squinted at reat" I felt ether

"Shut up" Mavis snapped atsomeone, you want to use the s fingers

"Maybe you should just let Mavis so this" I watched the needle with apprehension

"I trust you, you trust lared at ers were cold on h where to place the stitch and how to tie the knot before cutting the thread If I wasn’tline

"Move over a little bit to the right"

"Here?" Ava touched a spot below the wound

"That’s good" Mavis nodded