Chapter 19 - Slowly

“Now that we’re warm are you ready to talk about what happened today?” I ask Ryo in the stillness. I know we talked about it but I a lot was left unsaid. I don’t want this to come back and bite me in the ass later on. I want us to deal with all of it.

“I told you, I don’t have any control over who you spend your time with. You’re allowed to do whatever you want.” She says her voice soft and slow. It sounds like I woke her from sleep.

“So what you saw meant nothing to you. You had no feeling towards it.” I say and she groans.

“Of ‘course it meant something. I have feelings.” She says her voice getting a little harder now. She shifts her body slightly but she doesn’t move away from me. “All I’m saying is I can’t police you while I’m going on dates with someone else.” She says and all the jealousy I was trying to hide creeps up to the surface.

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