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Liar Fiona Cole 14320K 2023-08-29

1 Olivia

Remember that time I fucked an older man in a sex club?

I think that hen I peaked in life Can you peak at nineteen?

I rubbed my thumb across the creased paper pinned to my Kate Spade planner I’d folded and refolded it so ers stroked across the sharp lines of his initial likehi to cling to the night, I felt alive

Thank you for last night

– K

“Please be sure to have your business selections to me next week,” Dr Arden said from the front of the room I slappedwith the rest of the students ere hustling to leave class “I know a few of you have been procrastinating ona decision If you don’t come with a selection, one will be made for you from the list of local businesses”

I was one of those people, and as I walked past her desk, I knew—just knew—that if I looked up, she would be pointedly staring at ot out of there I needed to find so fast because that list of her options was lame, and I didn’t want to spend the rest of the semester with a clock and jewelry owner Not that I kneho I did want to intern for Hence, why I’d been avoiding the assignment We needed to find an unpaid internship for the semester and create a mock business based on e’d learned

I didn’t intentionally put it off; I was just waiting for so to excite me—to make me excited like I’d been when I first chose my business major I took a deep breath of the cold air and tried to re semester I dropped ure out as ued with this boredoe Boredom with life

“Are you trying to see if the sky is falling?”up beside me

“Nah, just hoping for a sign for my business project”

“You still haven’t picked one?”

I stuck with the trend of the day and avoided her eyes too At least, I tried I peeked at her inwisps of her hair out of her face where the wind had blown it It took the effect of her glare down a notch, but the sun old like a little fire of accusation, boosted it back up

I rolled

“What about Voyeur? I’ot the words out around her twitching lips

“Oh, yeah That would be great I can see the PowerPoint presentation now” I deepenedbang is thewomen”

Oaklyn laughed “Actually, it’s usually just a threesome”

I stopped walking and stared at her “And you just look so innocent”