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e day before. "'If it's just that they're two silly girls, it's normal for them to be such good friends.'I tried not to answer back. That w

at got you

e fed up wit

u think you are,

hit me, but before she did,

us city, I didn't know how to assert myself. My mind was still on the night before, lost in Monica's sheets. The time of pleasure did not compensate for the guilt. Like someone who takes drugs t

ed when Beth came

get mad? What did

like that in

me manners when you couldn't

how to add and m

you are and this... Anywa

ever treated you badly. I'll have no

ll, I'm warning you, I'm going to b

d in a tone that could not be v

king me do

be friends, but

if you weren't

uard down. I got the impression that she was only acting that way so as n

it worse until Beth forced me to leave. It wasn't the first time, Jack confessed to me, that a tenant had made any pretext to move out. Suspiciously they would go to much more overcrowded hostels or guesthouses, claiming proximity to the new job. 'Don't hold it against them,' Jack asked me one day. 'She's reacting like this because she's hurt about mom. She wasn't like that before.

ceptable. I couldn't wait to leave for London

nfrontation, something he had to deduce only from Jack's statement that "Beth was ac

niverse. He was the one I really felt comfortable with, but I didn't want

ated a girl in the past and angry that I had

new. You wer

new each oth

answering, as if the

her? Too mu

ted too. I didn't kno

, Anna. Monica

ha

e was with. The woman said she was going to have an aborti

d you f

showed up at the house. He told us the whole truth

t happen

irl was twelve years old. That's why Beth doesn't accept strang

s ruled in her favo

cal siblings are of no value to her. I would like to think that it is not beca

s were beautiful. Then I comforted him by wiping them away

k, don’t

an, you prefer

y that. It's

a wild ca

sudden. And I was coming from a breakup, I've lost a bro

etermined and brave. Otherwise, you may e

You only live once." I thought about what it might be like if I got naked for

quaintances burying the hatchet. "Sometimes the choices we make go totally

t to be and don't make it, others who live their impostured attitude as if they were mere ext