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“Sorta I kept choosing guys eren’t boyfriendto make the of inti I could trust someone But it was better that way Easier”

“Why’d you stop?”

“Sleeping around?”

“Yeah”

“It doesn’t bother you?”

“I don’t like thinking about you with other guys”

She chews on her bottoreen eyes flare with concern

“But, no, I don’t care that you used to sleep around It doesn’t matter how many people you’ve been with before”

“It’s not that many”

“It could be a thousand or one Wouldn’t matter to me either way”

“Really?”

“Really” I know her well enough to know she’s telling the truth Those guys didn’t matter to her They had her body, yeah, but they never had her head or her heart

And the ones who did, who hton—

If I everfaces

“That’s incredibly evolved of you,” she says