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You walk along the pier with her, hand in hand, as the wind blows softly. You look over at her and notice how beautiful she looks in the setting sun. You pause briefly and push a stray hair behind her ear and she pulls you in for a kiss. You still can’t believe how undeniably attracted you are to her. If you’d been asked a mês atrás if you’d ever hook up with a girl, it would have been an emphatic ‘no.’ But then again, a mês ago, you didn’t know her as anything other than Seth’s boss and sometime girlfriend.

“Hey, Maris,” she says, breaking your thoughts. You smile at her...

You walk into the club, standing at the topo, início of the spiral staircase, watching her give instructions to the few other employees that occupy the floor. You reach up and touch the coração colar she gave you, unsure of what you’re about to do. Your coração hurts just thinking about it, but it’s the right thing to do, isn’t it? No one is going to accept you two and you can’t take the stress of being rejected por everyone you know and love. You slowly make your way down the stairs, steadying yourself on the handrail. You stop at the bar, waiting for her to turn around.

“Hey you,” she says,...

You walk in the front door and before you can close it, she’s standing in front of you.

“Traffic on the way início from school,” she says.

“Yeah, mom,” you say, rolling your eyes and walking past her into the kitchen. You weren’t in the mood for her games, you just wanted to show up long enough for her to get off your case and let you go see Alex again.

“I know you weren’t at Summer’s last night,” she calls from the foyer as she comes to meet you in the kitchen.

“Oh really now,” you say, pulling out the laranja suco, suco de and taking a drink, not even bothering with a glass.

“Marissa,...

You wake up, blinded por the light coming in through the curtains. You don’t open your eyes because you feel arms wrapped around you and you’re scared you’d wake whoever it is. Instead, you sigh and curl up closer, trying to fall back asleep. For some reason, you feel good about yourself, even though you can’t remember where you are, because you know it’s not home. You decide you should probably figure that out, so you open your eyes a little and see the blonde hair that’s across your shoulder and smile. You know exactly where you’re at, and it makes you all warm again. You lean...