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So great to learn that your dead father was a manwhore

What a great day

I saw the color drain frooodness One of the wicked stepmothers is your mother?” she asked

“That’s the rumor”

“None of them reacted at all to the news,” she remarked

“Thank you, Captain Obvious”

“Do you have to be sarcastic about everything?”

“Yeah It’s kind of ”

“That’s a tacky thing”

“I’m a tacky fucker”

She reached out and placed a hand against my forearm “Da this out to be soame when it’s your life”

Her touch sent a sensation through ainst ?”

Her eyes narrowed in confusion Her brown eyes Even though she’d annoyed me, Stella’s eyes were re without any words

“I’ you,” she explained “Has no one ever done that?”

“Of course, they have,” I shot back, yanking my arm back to my side “I just don’t need your pity”

“It’s not pity It’s comfort,” she explained “It makes me sad that you can’t tell the difference”

“Don’t waste your sadness on me”

“When in life did you become so cold?” she asked

That question hit hard against in to spin