a's

onth

ra's sharp voice pierces my

s one month late. Holding my bag to cover my face, I try to hide behind a big va

I nervously grip my sweater tightly

ive it last night." Her breathing is ha

e nicely, and the high neck short black dress shows off her long legs. Sh

hadn't tried to escape from her earlier. My attic room's rent is 1000

just need a little time." My stomac

ir ribs just because they didn't give the rent money on time. They begg

understand?" She screams in my fa

student residence, and the rent money is extremely higher than in

ight," I swallow h

best deal to rent an attic room. Sure, th

. The boss doesn't provide me with a free meal and I have no place to cook food in

me two thousand, two months rent money, last month and this month." Her j

ve it to you ton

s before

e

e penniless tomorrow, drinking free icy

anonymous girl. But I wi

p and get to the coffee shop in fifteen minutes, or I'll

can and just arrive with eight minutes to get there. On a different sort o

on how to ride a bike without stabilizers; where supermarket p

he college only accepts forty students every year, and most of the stud

a?" The manage

e and sweater on the p

ad as if her hand has an X-ray thing tha

l cold, want

ead with a

able, brings in the crates of mild and bread from the refri

says having me there keeps the place colorful. Sh

expensive, and you're good at chatti

o Tuesday and sit reading newspapers and drinking her way through one cup of coffee. I always c

-haired man with tattoos who always shouts l

ches my hair and says, "Emma, your landlord Tara

outh hanging open. "I'm sorry, Robert

e here, but I want to look after you. There's three months' money

rs and take a big bite to eat all the foo

k harder, I t

dents enter, I smile and serve them some

two stronger hunks enter, talking into earpiec

e people?" I

this small coffee shop, this is my first ti

e tremendously important is about to arri

de in and we both stop our silly laughing, my happin

t against his skin, my smile freezes, and my breath catches in

face, I kno

s younger brother, a

I want to run and find

n't run, I remind myself doggedly,

though he is looking deeper. Beneath my clothes, the though

urn everywhere his

in's

offee shop, it's my honor to serve you.

e immediately lands on a slim girl

t s

ptures my senses, like wal

rts to slam

hing so delicious, and the feelin

face me, I stand up and walk towards her,

body up. She nervously lifts her head up but st

ame?" I grab h

ly as though she is nervous and

have met in my life, never have I see

her throat, reaching up and tucking a strand

wirls around me and mak

out impatiently as my

rve you." She says with a kind of provoc

kin flushed by anger, blue eyes lu

geous, lik

rve break down. Years of loneline

ind. Finally, the madness that I ha

eal of power, a limitless supply of resources - that,

at her in a confident tone, watching

ulders, her hair falling around her perfect

tightness of her and the pulse at my g

at she is mine, no

whispering in her ear, "I intend to give you my

r accident, we lost our mom, and our mate, Jordy becomes an extre

- we will share one girl and

n't want to share t