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Rose Blackwater

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DELILAH

They were hickeys.

Of all the things Damien could think to do, he had me walking around with hickeys without even knowing they existed. And now my mom has noticed them.

And now I was freaking out. That’s the only way I could explain it, what I was feeling. I was freaking out.

She raised her hand slowly, as if, you know, to touch me, to touch them....and I just snapped.

“Don’t touch me!” I shouted, taking two steps back from her.

I must have looked crazy. I was going crazy. It felt like she knew everything, all my mistakes, all the dirty things I had done. It was like I was standing there completely exposed, and she could see straight through me.

But what happened next? I wasn’t expecting that either.

“It was your first time,” she said.

Her hand was on her chest, and her eyes.... God, her eyes held this mix of anger, frustration, and sympathy I couldn’t understand at first. She looked at me, and then suddenly it was like she was holding back tears. I was still confused by her r
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