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I can’t quite figure out how I feel about the fact that Theo knows I fucked his friend All of this is such a ju fits the normal rules of behavior

Trying to shove down the flush I can feel coloring my cheeks, I twist a little to open the door with my left hand and then slide off the heated seat and into the cool night air outside my apartment

I push the car door shut, and as it closes with a thunk, therolls down again Theo dips his head, dropping it nearly sideways so he can grin up at me

“Goodnight, Rose Sleep tight”

I give him a jerky nod, rattled by his use of a nickna he called me at the bar, and the easy familiarity of it unnerves me

Without saying anything else, I turn and hurry up tomy keys from my pocket The 3B decal is still so wherever it landed when I hurled it at the floor

The me with everything else that happened after I arrived,office work do

n feels like another lifeti that happened less than twenty-four hours ago

So much has happened since then

So ed

With a sharp shake ofopen and dart inside quickly Once I’m safely tucked away in my own apartment, I chuck my keys on the coffee table and sink down onto the couch

I sit there for a few h, worn fabric of the cushion beneath round me

Then I dig intoit on ave me and hit “add new contact”

I don’t knohy I do it

I’ to call him