It's been over two weeks since Evetta and I first had sex, and we've done it at least once each day.604Please respect copyright.PENANAPli1sohWjd
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It's amazing.604Please respect copyright.PENANAXyyk5fkXOQ
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAPFXrZErHcc
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANANF9TjFvuBV
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAoJAjNOEbkp
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When I walk into the waiting room, the receptionist, Maria, looks up to greet whoever entered the office.604Please respect copyright.PENANA8pMUPATUVk
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"Good morning, welcome to— holy fuck, Caleb?" she shrieks.604Please respect copyright.PENANAStAEyhfEqQ
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAXANR9HycVv
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One of the vets, who is also the owner of the clinic — Eli — rushes out to see what's wrong.604Please respect copyright.PENANAKrmg0aDOP2
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"Maria, what— Caleb?" he asks, as if he can't believe that I'm real.604Please respect copyright.PENANAKeLcuKuHhB
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"Yeah," I respond lamely.604Please respect copyright.PENANACdFE4ds6oB
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"We thought you'd never come back! That you were severely injured! Had major brain damage, or were physically—"604Please respect copyright.PENANAZDftSEDihZ
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"No. I wasn't emotionally ready, I guess."604Please respect copyright.PENANAkuvhUubSSa
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Yet another one of my colleagues — Amanda — comes out into the reception area.604Please respect copyright.PENANAZ5pXsbe6VI
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"Caleb? Oh, my god!"604Please respect copyright.PENANAUFGElblYJx
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Suddenly, something hits me.604Please respect copyright.PENANAwqI4RHsIHf
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I've been out for over a year; what if I've been replaced?604Please respect copyright.PENANAwtewOYF53v
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"Um... Eli... Do I still have a—"604Please respect copyright.PENANAeQBLnUlOqm
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"Job? Fuck, yes! We need as many vets as we can get!"604Please respect copyright.PENANAst0GrIOjtp
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"Yer fuckin' righ', I've been wai'n' her' fer' two hours!" one man shouts.604Please respect copyright.PENANAJvEKQU0pJH
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAmViVaHdBel
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I remember pulling on that hair last night—604Please respect copyright.PENANAB8vNclQ7AR
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Stop.604Please respect copyright.PENANAXPE2kXCoAa
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAQd2Br7NDxd
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I turn to look at Eli.604Please respect copyright.PENANAudqeWPUcJf
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"When can I start working?" I ask him.604Please respect copyright.PENANAMozY2IjUte
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"Next Tuesday. We need to get everything in order for you."m604Please respect copyright.PENANA8lGNQcKQiY
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANANjcZlLzcXE
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That actually went a lot better than I thought it would.604Please respect copyright.PENANA8sSBncZ8Jj
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Now, I feel like less of a spineless bitch. Now, I feel a little more deserving of Evetta.604Please respect copyright.PENANA7HRGwjealb
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One of the funniest things is watching Evetta attempt to explain Jamaican slang to me.604Please respect copyright.PENANAndRWkKyYnP
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAshr41Dw8jn
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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".604Please respect copyright.PENANALrUSMnADZn
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She explained that in that context, it meant that she just hit her really hard.604Please respect copyright.PENANAQeVluBwKH4
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Today however... today, it's not that simple.604Please respect copyright.PENANAFrXuVn22CK
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAme9MoncIOF
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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—"604Please respect copyright.PENANAvoFrQ48ybj
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAl6H9Pgtt1W
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"Ya ova pree di ting."604Please respect copyright.PENANAsx1qzJHIyS
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Ova pree?604Please respect copyright.PENANAK3no4IVlgm
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"'Ova pree'? What does that men?"604Please respect copyright.PENANAtNi3advuuJ
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So now, she's attempting to explain what 'ova pree' means to me.604Please respect copyright.PENANAsjg9Tox9Nd
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She has this funny habit of using more patois to explain patois when she can't explain it in English.604Please respect copyright.PENANASVYfCc9UJa
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"Is when... uh a watch it too haad."604Please respect copyright.PENANAQFlxkIq2RZ
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I chuckle.604Please respect copyright.PENANAt8e3Ba8qH0
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"What do you mean by 'I'm watching it too hard'?604Please respect copyright.PENANAVitAw1wDQV
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Her forehead crinkles, and she thinks for a minute.604Please respect copyright.PENANAJkAxh7pVGK
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAPcXdCoIyfL
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"So 'pree' means 'think'?" 604Please respect copyright.PENANAs8oelFAOX6
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"Or observe. It depends on the context."604Please respect copyright.PENANAp0dPPNDXrC
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAUaFvLsWEv0
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When it's over, she puts away her laptop, and goes into the bathroom to get ready for bed.604Please respect copyright.PENANATPsbcgcKLP
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAICEhI66fnx
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When I exit the bathroom; I go to lie down behind her, and wrap my arm firmly around her stomach.604Please respect copyright.PENANAcbgY8b6Wql
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"Eve?" I say.604Please respect copyright.PENANA8PLD8y9zQ3
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"Yeah?"604Please respect copyright.PENANAzB3a0li3WR
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"I love you," I tell her, because I really do, and I intend to remind her of that. A lot.604Please respect copyright.PENANAjYf2UI0fvt
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"I love you too."604Please respect copyright.PENANAJEifWxkLGf
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAJYUaRndfHc
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAnOq4UiCRFi
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Well, I've decided to use that to get creative.604Please respect copyright.PENANA4Sgxx0twsR
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAxEOvowL3Qx
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Now to sit on her bed. And wait.604Please respect copyright.PENANA7xZfCbOXmJ
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This is so painful.604Please respect copyright.PENANAHMRr4GOKTv
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I can usually predict her next move, but now... I don't know.604Please respect copyright.PENANApRuvtWLw6c
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What if the condensed water on the mirror causes the note to fall off?604Please respect copyright.PENANA7j38tWqfV8
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What if she isn't ready?604Please respect copyright.PENANAvIT2Xh4kUL
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What if—604Please respect copyright.PENANAVEoYEz91LF
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The shower stops.604Please respect copyright.PENANA92BPosOQ3h
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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—"604Please respect copyright.PENANAwG72N09a0J
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The singing stops, leaving FKA twigs's voice playing from her phone.604Please respect copyright.PENANAcfcF1VSjXe
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Then:604Please respect copyright.PENANAtLYlJ2uvbJ
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"AAAHHHHHHH!" she screams so loudly, so high-pitched, that she probably broke the mirror and ruptured an eardrum.604Please respect copyright.PENANArDYLqai2jP
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That can't be in response to the two-worded question I stuck onto the bathroom mirror.604Please respect copyright.PENANAV75L4EM7FG
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANA7P1oCxWre5
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"Evetta, wha—"604Please respect copyright.PENANAjQ8WZhY8dq
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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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAZC3PzVMPqy
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"What the fu—"604Please respect copyright.PENANAVKqXKMnRdo
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"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.604Please respect copyright.PENANAW0wYqzCJPU
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She said yes.604Please respect copyright.PENANAx4dXnSoKxy
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To me.604Please respect copyright.PENANAbu3gW8voHT
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We're going to get married.
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