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The sexual tension was thick, andlike a swollen river –

And then Shanna caht jeans and a low-cut halter top that showed off her boobs

“I’m ready!” she announced happily

As soon as she appeared, she could tell so into an invisible wall

“Uh… is everything okay?” she asked

“Definitely,” Derek so”

He gestured to me, and I walked past him towards the stairwell As I went, he put his hand on the shtest of touches, and then it was gone

My knees buckled and I about lostlot

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I was expecting our destination to be a nasty, old rundown shack sandwiched in between crack houses And I was expecting Derek’s band-haired scuz that ould wake up e got there

I couldn’t have been

As I drove my beat-up Toyota, Derek directedwith a newly friendly Shanna

We finally turned into a very pretty, upper-hborhood without in the street

We pulled up in front of a brick McMansion with a long driveway that ended on the side of the house

“Whoa, your bassist lives here?” Shanna asked

“Yeah Nice, huh?” Derek agreed

There was a new Honda sitting in front of a basketball hoop I started to park beside it when Derek stopped me

“Park behind it – his parents aren’t hoet blocked in”

His parents aren’t home from work yet?

“He lives with his parents?” Shanna asked, once again voicing the questions I wasn’t sure were polite

“Yeah, he’s still a senior in high school,” Derek said

High school?!

I realized that I’d never found out Derek’s age

“How old are you?” I asked

“Eighteen”

Holy SHIT He was a year younger than me