It's been over two weeks since Evetta and I first had sex, and we've done it at least once each day.486Please respect copyright.PENANAwrUdbLYk8U
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It's amazing.486Please respect copyright.PENANAjkL1TEv6zI
486Please respect copyright.PENANA9vQKOzVFge
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I'm one hundred percent sure that Evetta is the girl that I want to love, to fuck, to be with for the rest of my life, but before I propose, I have to get this out of the way.486Please respect copyright.PENANA9Oi8vLbmmz
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"Come on Caleb, you've driven all this way... just go inside, and face them," I say to to myself under my breath, giving myself a mini pep talk.486Please respect copyright.PENANA084Nl5AqS9
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Finally, after sitting in my car for over ten minutes and staring at the front of the veterinary clinic, I cut the engine, get out of the car and lock it, and walk up to the front door.486Please respect copyright.PENANApWeSZORtpO
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When I walk into the waiting room, the receptionist, Maria, looks up to greet whoever entered the office.486Please respect copyright.PENANA0SN3wOwns0
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"Good morning, welcome to— holy fuck, Caleb?" she shrieks.486Please respect copyright.PENANARzDShIT1gw
486Please respect copyright.PENANAfIrvAACaL3
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"Yeah," I say, my cheeks on fire, because everyone in the waiting room is now paying attention to me, except for a young man who is wearing a pair of headphones, listening to MCR's "The Ghost of You"; it's that loud, I can hear it from where I'm standing, at least five feet away from him.486Please respect copyright.PENANAbGr7gSL5G2
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One of the vets, who is also the owner of the clinic — Eli — rushes out to see what's wrong.486Please respect copyright.PENANAxju3KTJCAM
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"Maria, what— Caleb?" he asks, as if he can't believe that I'm real.486Please respect copyright.PENANAykn5zkL3h7
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"Yeah," I respond lamely.486Please respect copyright.PENANAv29YfwzVZ0
486Please respect copyright.PENANAj4x0DDWWzQ
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"We thought you'd never come back! That you were severely injured! Had major brain damage, or were physically—"486Please respect copyright.PENANA21FTk0MM4F
486Please respect copyright.PENANA5IngCrG3B1
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"No. I wasn't emotionally ready, I guess."486Please respect copyright.PENANAD0X6eBSXeb
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Yet another one of my colleagues — Amanda — comes out into the reception area.486Please respect copyright.PENANAYo5p05yLYn
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"Caleb? Oh, my god!"486Please respect copyright.PENANAsZMCemr4Dg
486Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1DQ2Cilsj
486Please respect copyright.PENANAQfuu6CiKx1
Suddenly, something hits me.486Please respect copyright.PENANAXovcR52BRK
486Please respect copyright.PENANAqMWLemN9Df
486Please respect copyright.PENANA6u7hSXVhGx
I've been out for over a year; what if I've been replaced?486Please respect copyright.PENANAR0hdLnIl2I
486Please respect copyright.PENANAVfwf2410tm
486Please respect copyright.PENANALhDxBQl5BE
"Um... Eli... Do I still have a—"486Please respect copyright.PENANADD76vI3plJ
486Please respect copyright.PENANA8jNxLmFuZ5
486Please respect copyright.PENANAEgAg8Kp5MR
"Job? Fuck, yes! We need as many vets as we can get!"486Please respect copyright.PENANACQzlCsVpZN
486Please respect copyright.PENANAb4vKR1Nndr
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"Yer fuckin' righ', I've been wai'n' her' fer' two hours!" one man shouts.486Please respect copyright.PENANAZ512VuQwNc
486Please respect copyright.PENANA0I0jndKT1j
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We all turn to look at him. He has an orange kitten with white stripes in his lap. He's young, and, and about Evetta's complexion; like Evetta, he seems to be mixed with black and multiple other races that you'd probably never figure out on your own (Evetta's maternal grandmother is Indonesian, her maternal grandfather is half Syrian; her father's father's father was Indian, hence her last name, Maji.) He has the same hair texture as her; kinky, but, at the same time, curly, springy spirals shooting in every direction.486Please respect copyright.PENANA5tq2Tt0Suj
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I remember pulling on that hair last night—486Please respect copyright.PENANAAh6dXEI1Tj
486Please respect copyright.PENANA4TPfUvBJCG
486Please respect copyright.PENANAvm7odSgTEg
Stop.486Please respect copyright.PENANAEWBOmnlEaf
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486Please respect copyright.PENANA3p7hNZPj7e
Why must I think of her everywhere I go? To be honest, he doesn't look like her; it's just that when you're in love, everything reminds you of that person.486Please respect copyright.PENANA0zUciKpYqu
486Please respect copyright.PENANAVZ0XYzva7R
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I turn to look at Eli.486Please respect copyright.PENANAOVHMUMJZcz
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"When can I start working?" I ask him.486Please respect copyright.PENANArbFKNJBGvo
486Please respect copyright.PENANASkJQZHH3zL
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"Next Tuesday. We need to get everything in order for you."m486Please respect copyright.PENANAanTC42qQvq
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"Okay. Thanks, Eli. Bye, guys." I say to him, rushing back out of the clinic, relieved that the encounter is over. I don't miss the 'I'm glad he's okay and back, but what the fuck just happened?' look on all of their faces.486Please respect copyright.PENANAjsNdtHMboB
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That actually went a lot better than I thought it would.486Please respect copyright.PENANAQha93LHH60
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Now, I feel like less of a spineless bitch. Now, I feel a little more deserving of Evetta.486Please respect copyright.PENANAiFHMk2hvtz
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486Please respect copyright.PENANAMvheGf9K1l
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***486Please respect copyright.PENANAmuqF8SRZIo
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One of the funniest things is watching Evetta attempt to explain Jamaican slang to me.486Please respect copyright.PENANA4nAFu5Kqx3
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Some words, I know because she told me before the coma, but sometimes, she'll spit out something new, or something that she's never properly explained to me before.486Please respect copyright.PENANAzez8zsGgbc
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For example, I know that rass is an expletive, but yesterday, she was telling me a story about this girl and how she "rass har inna har face".486Please respect copyright.PENANATo1AsNxktW
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She explained that in that context, it meant that she just hit her really hard.486Please respect copyright.PENANAW5d5T9jkpe
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Today however... today, it's not that simple.486Please respect copyright.PENANAp4F3koAO5T
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We were watching 'Wallace and Grommet: The Curse of the Were Rabbit' on DVD on her laptop, and I had to comment on how ridiculous the whole thing was.486Please respect copyright.PENANA6ZiSd4p5Ip
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"If he has no mouth, how does he eat? How does that even work? Does he live off of a drip—"486Please respect copyright.PENANANNuMOzYTf0
486Please respect copyright.PENANAClPNfu2cZw
486Please respect copyright.PENANAY1tBqZdMFF
Evetta interrupted me by 'kissing her teeth' — making a sound by sucking air through her teeth, locked together while her tongue was pressed firmly behind them.486Please respect copyright.PENANAJHsWt9T1Nx
486Please respect copyright.PENANAlNuSqvXLWL
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"Ya ova pree di ting."486Please respect copyright.PENANAHZ13iMQXqY
486Please respect copyright.PENANAa85zlWKmUA
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Ova pree?486Please respect copyright.PENANA8TsB13Hp3G
486Please respect copyright.PENANAiqauod3BHc
486Please respect copyright.PENANArhQ8FeTWFA
"'Ova pree'? What does that men?"486Please respect copyright.PENANA6iYFWz6LAW
486Please respect copyright.PENANAXApfDDkYIZ
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So now, she's attempting to explain what 'ova pree' means to me.486Please respect copyright.PENANA8iVVItTijI
486Please respect copyright.PENANAOYeZlTsKDJ
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She has this funny habit of using more patois to explain patois when she can't explain it in English.486Please respect copyright.PENANAaPCkTMa11C
486Please respect copyright.PENANAKbsmzFqGIS
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"Is when... uh a watch it too haad."486Please respect copyright.PENANAyhR4wNRpuQ
486Please respect copyright.PENANAVr5rZYLiNs
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I chuckle.486Please respect copyright.PENANAQdKLvg7aJX
486Please respect copyright.PENANAC6bXnDgPiO
486Please respect copyright.PENANAGn00XXG1GQ
"What do you mean by 'I'm watching it too hard'?486Please respect copyright.PENANAkVs1mHXmyP
486Please respect copyright.PENANA09qd8NkF2l
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Her forehead crinkles, and she thinks for a minute.486Please respect copyright.PENANAjVliuJ7FTL
486Please respect copyright.PENANAWsrHPoJNXA
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"You're thinking too much. Certain things require suspension of disbelief, and enjoying a comedy about a mouthless dog is one of them; so stop thinking so much, and enjoy the fucking movie," she says with a giggle.486Please respect copyright.PENANA00Kyn6bcdH
486Please respect copyright.PENANAcxUI6drO1O
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"So 'pree' means 'think'?" 486Please respect copyright.PENANAVVoXabiE5j
486Please respect copyright.PENANATvDA2Kk1UO
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"Or observe. It depends on the context."486Please respect copyright.PENANA4oHhFIdxsh
486Please respect copyright.PENANAhPDuJXHqVV
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We resume watching the movie, with me continually making comments, and her telling me to shut up until the very end.486Please respect copyright.PENANAHEzF2JY8mM
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When it's over, she puts away her laptop, and goes into the bathroom to get ready for bed.486Please respect copyright.PENANA1ZNBOCfnmd
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When she leaves, I enter, brushing my teeth as I look into my eyes. When I just woke up, they looked lifeless, empty; now, they look like a bright, vibrant shade of green — "a bright jade", that's how Evetta describes it.486Please respect copyright.PENANARUzbqCWhu0
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When I exit the bathroom; I go to lie down behind her, and wrap my arm firmly around her stomach.486Please respect copyright.PENANA7r7IxHVPw9
486Please respect copyright.PENANA2v1wHBMqN7
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"Eve?" I say.486Please respect copyright.PENANAiCJrkrEUXD
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"Yeah?"486Please respect copyright.PENANAdxNtpnbJZP
486Please respect copyright.PENANANJzQu3ShxY
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"I love you," I tell her, because I really do, and I intend to remind her of that. A lot.486Please respect copyright.PENANAGDIYuokMRj
486Please respect copyright.PENANAoPdUBztlaG
486Please respect copyright.PENANA3BBDeH6pmJ
"I love you too."486Please respect copyright.PENANAgafUbBYt5N
486Please respect copyright.PENANAQHDoHGAhKN
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I smile to my self, grinning like the lovesick fool that I am. I never get tired of hearing that; it fucks me up every time.486Please respect copyright.PENANArHuTtkIR8H
486Please respect copyright.PENANAtI7VnMnGzi
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***486Please respect copyright.PENANAHnEcSrfQT7
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486Please respect copyright.PENANAwQid0ZCD8P
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Remember when I told you that Evetta uses Post-it papers to remind me of shit that I'll more than likely forget.486Please respect copyright.PENANAhOmrXKN7np
486Please respect copyright.PENANAS0xxhcvgdc
486Please respect copyright.PENANAQt9yCUH8d4
Well, I've decided to use that to get creative.486Please respect copyright.PENANAHzkSDQ0zHh
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Sticking the note onto the mirror, I quietly exit the bathroom while she sings to herself in the shower with her phone playing music in the background — good god, her singing is atrocious, I'm trying so hard to not laugh out loud — and close the door.486Please respect copyright.PENANA8FfafPmkYO
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Now to sit on her bed. And wait.486Please respect copyright.PENANAi62OdgsBsh
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This is so painful.486Please respect copyright.PENANAZzUAOnIezQ
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I can usually predict her next move, but now... I don't know.486Please respect copyright.PENANAP6Sh6Nk17d
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What if the condensed water on the mirror causes the note to fall off?486Please respect copyright.PENANAHfqvoXENOf
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486Please respect copyright.PENANAeETAbnH0KY
What if she isn't ready?486Please respect copyright.PENANA9V0gShwTsk
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What if—486Please respect copyright.PENANAGmASt2hIgr
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The shower stops.486Please respect copyright.PENANAkFnPGOTlv1
486Please respect copyright.PENANAUxEQWxNvwY
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"Was she that girl that's from the video? Was she that girl that's from the video? Stop, stop lying to—"486Please respect copyright.PENANAuRNpvPOpft
486Please respect copyright.PENANAz7BIoQhYGS
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The singing stops, leaving FKA twigs's voice playing from her phone.486Please respect copyright.PENANAKOM7OObljz
486Please respect copyright.PENANAYKpBrEmyS1
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Then:486Please respect copyright.PENANAwQY2JamP4V
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"AAAHHHHHHH!" she screams so loudly, so high-pitched, that she probably broke the mirror and ruptured an eardrum.486Please respect copyright.PENANAWJIeS4SdXN
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That can't be in response to the two-worded question I stuck onto the bathroom mirror.486Please respect copyright.PENANAPi8u8mys7u
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"What the fuck?" I say to myself, jumping off of the bed and rush into the bathroom, nearly ripping it off of it's hinges.486Please respect copyright.PENANAqmVejfscwx
486Please respect copyright.PENANAeFzl0ciEHj
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"Evetta, wha—"486Please respect copyright.PENANAGMHrMTaqBm
486Please respect copyright.PENANAXXV0uYUUKK
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She jumps on me, and because I'm not expecting it, we both fall to the floor; I feel a weird sense of Deja Vu, remembering the first time we had sex. This time, however, insisted of being embarrassed, I'm so fucking confused.486Please respect copyright.PENANAB6fVLwCWdw
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"What the fu—"486Please respect copyright.PENANAiAxsG5RLdE
486Please respect copyright.PENANAmHZl7hjAEq
486Please respect copyright.PENANAHaAH1Jhdk2
"YASS!" she sobs with tears streaming down her face. She's so loud that it hurts my head; I felt my eardrums vibrate just now, but all of that's the least of my problems right now because she just said yes.486Please respect copyright.PENANAdPY3WnnxmO
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She said yes.486Please respect copyright.PENANAAOszykbOdj
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To me.486Please respect copyright.PENANAzu2hEcd9JD
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We're going to get married.
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