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The Virgin Tiffany Reisz 14350K 2023-09-03

"Do I at least get points for trying towide-eyed and hopeful

"Two"

"That?"

"I’h"

"How ?" Elle asked, turning the steaive

"The ‘Let’s Be Friends’ game"

"I don’t need any friends"

"We all need friends," Kyrie said "We’d go crazy without friends"

"You’re already crazy," Elle re from your abusive boyfriend?" Kyrie asked, and Elle stood up straight and stared Kyrie down Daniel o Elle had perfected her own scary stare she used on the other subsley’s circle The second one of them crossed a line, stepped out of bounds, or even worse, in Elle’s opinion, whined, she gave that Sub a stare so intense it had inspired tears She gave Kyrie that sain?" Elle asked

"What?" Kyrie blinked at her in confusion

"If we’re having a personal conversation, it’s going to be two-sided Are you a virgin?"

"Yes," Kyrie said

"I thought so"

"What does that mean?" Kyrie demanded

"It means that you are innocent You have never let yourself be sexually vulnerable to soine whatentirely different languages I could tell you the truth about who I aht me here and none of it will make any sense to you"

"How do you know that?"

"How do you think I kne to get candle wax off your habit?" Elle asked

"I don’t know You said it hat? A recreational hazard Recreation uesses hohy?"

"Not really Candle wax doesn’t seem all that fun"

"You don’t run with the same crowd that I do then Used to run with," she corrected

"Sounds like an interesting crowd The candle wax gang"

"We were I guess" Elle sighed and folded her now-perfectly flat tablecloth

"Do youboard and pulled herself up onto the counter Her feet, shod in black old lady shoes, kicked against the doors Without the habit, Kyrie would look like a bored teenage girl sitting on a kitchen counter

"Yes and no," Elle said "I miss parts of it"