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Now that ere alone, I foundsince high school I can’t believe this girl wasor she’d disappear

“You ready to answer some of those questions I asked you earlier?” She tore a piece of stea hot naan and passed it to me

“Not really, I think we should just leave the past where it is and start over, if…if that’s what you want”

That falter was the first sign of insecurity I’ve seen in her since I dragged her out of her house earlier This was another side to her, one I was more familiar with, the quietly reserved doe in the woods

“I want to be sure I wanna jump you every ti, but I think you deserve a hell of a lotto work then we’re going to have to take it one step at a time; even if it kills me” I said the last part beneath my breath, but she still heard

“Who are you unsure of? Me, or yourself?”

“What do you mean?”

“You said you needed to be sure, so I’ Don’t you know your own mind, or are you afraid after all that just happened? Do you think one day I’ll turn into her?”

This girl, so straightforward and in your face, I don’t think I know anyone else quite like that “Well, Jenny, I’m pretty sure I knohat I want at this point I want to fuck you I want to relive everything we did that night and remember every second of it But is that what’s best for you?”

“Why don’t you let me think about what’s best for me?”

“What’re you saying?”

“Derrick, when I was a little girl following you around, it wasn’t because you were an angel I knew you better than I think anyone else did There were tiot that I was there Like the time you and Susie Cameron was in the pool-house out back”

“Who?”

“Exactly You don’t even reain, but that’s another story” I vaguely reet is the fact that there was only one reason I used to take girls back there

“You spied on ?” She choked on her fancy water while I sat there in disbelief