Besides, I had to redeem my earlier stupidity somehow, and the days when I would have picked a fight just to reassure myself I was still tough were long ago and far away. He muttered, Sorry, miss, even as he started moving slowly, stiffly off the top of the pile. Even soft, there came that moment where my body said, no, we're choking, that nothing this big should be coming down this far in one piece. You know that old saying, I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
You confessing to something for your furry friends? he asked, and he wasn't smiling enough for the comment, not for my peace of mind. No, because he lets me date. Most of the room was carpeted in leopard print, so that my first thought was, always, Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal prints are in this year. The question is always about the person in between.
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