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I looked around. A double bed, simple, with a closet, two bedside tables, a large window on the right side of the bed, the door in front of the bed, a bathroom on one side.... This is not my room. Indeed, it wasn't, I was in the guest room.I sat on the bed, I had yesterday's clothes on. On a small piece of furniture was a bag, I figured it was Ethan's clothes. The bed was a mess, the sheet covering the mattress was wrapped around one of my legs. Next to me, I had a mountain of pillows and sheets."What the hell happened?," I said sleepily. I was really comfortable in that bed and didn't want to get up.I lay down again and hugged the mountain of pillows next to me with my arms and legs. I curled up, but suddenly I noticed the mountain was breathing.I froze. This can't be, no, no, no. This is a joke.I pulled back some sheets and a pillow and found a sleeping Ethan. He was peacefully asleep, I touched the pad of my index finger to his cheek to see if he was awake, but all he di
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Since that incident, Ethan had been much nicer and at the same time distant with me, we were getting along a little better, but not like the day we both apologized to each other. He didn't accompany me when I went to the GYM or shopping with some of my girlfriends, but he was almost always stuck in my house. We didn't talk much, just trivial things like what he thought of what was on TV at the time or how was the food that night, totally impersonal and banal things.My friend Amy called me to confirm going to the beach in 2 weeks, I had already spent half a month on vacation and I hadn't realized what I had used it up on. Every night I would talk to my dad on Skype or occasionally call the house, when I did, I would talk to Ethan for a while, who would lock himself in his room to talk in privacy or rather so I wouldn't overhear his conversation and when I stopped talking to him, he would give it to me, standing in front, listening to what we were talking about.On Saturday, a week
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Once out of the car, I walked a few steps and looked with my eyes for a car that could say "That must be Ethan's", I found a somewhat junked and previous generation one. When he passed me, perhaps on his way to get his car, I stopped him."So, instead of riding in my car, you'd rather ride in your junker," I pointed to the car and started walking towards it, laughing."Ha ha ha, really funny, Minerva. You did great on this one," he gave me an ugly look for a few moments and I smiled innocently. When the car rang, I realized it wasn't the actual used junk car that rang, but the big, black, four-door Honda Hr-v pickup truck.My jaw must have dropped to the floor and back.Ethan's expression turned to one of superiority, at best seeing my amazement with his truck.The truth is, it was beautiful and late model. When Ethan got in and started the car, I walked over to the passenger door and sat down. The seats were leather and beige, the stereo was late model. He laughed at my expression
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"Okay, you start," even though I wanted to, I couldn't sit like him since I had a skirt and was a lady. I continued eating my exquisite pasta, waiting for him to start."I play the guitar," he said proudly."I play the piano," I said naturally."Hmm... I've never had a pet"."I did, a dog. Her name was Brandy"."When I was little, I fell out of my father's arms," he said with a grimace."I was dropped off the bed," I mimicked his grimace.We both fell silent, looking at each other. A few seconds later, we started laughing."I like to read a lot of books," I added, once my laughter had stopped."I like to read too," he said, smiling and stopping laughing."I learned to ride a bike when I was 15," I said with some embarrassment."What?," he stared at me, waiting for me to say it was a lie, but when he saw that I didn't say anything, he started to laugh."Don't laugh, I never had the chance, okay?," I pushed him slightly, somewhat resentfully."Please, Minerva. You learn that when you'r
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Without saying anything, a few seconds later Ethan got into the car and started it to go back to the city. It was already around 7pm and we were arriving home, the road was much shorter than on the way, maybe because of the movement of cars. When we arrived, I ran up the stairs and in the middle of them, Ethan's voice stopped me."Minerva"."Yes?," I turned to face him, feeling a little more confident from a distance."I'm going out for a while now, okay?," he looked me in the eye, even though he was near the front door and I was halfway up the stairs."Where are you going?," I asked, trying to sound as disinterested as possible."Relax, honey, there's no reason for you to be jealous. You'll always be my favorite," he gave me an innocent smile. I rolled my eyes, turning my back on him and continuing on my way to my room. Idiot. What do you mean, jealous? As if I really cared where he was going and with whom.When I heard the front door open and close, I pulled my cell phone out of
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We spent about 30 minutes trying to make the dough, because I didn't really remember how to make them and we searched the internet.After we followed the recipe to the letter, Isabela dropped the mixing bowl so we had to make it again. My kitchen looked like a hurricane had blown in and made a mess of it, but on the contrary, it was just three girls trying to make cookies. While we had a lot of mishaps in making the cookies, I was having a blast, we kept laughing and playing with the dough and eating it as we mixed it.At one point when we stopped talking, as we were very focused on what we were doing, I grabbed some flour and threw it all over Isabela's face. I loved teasing her. She yelled at me, calling me names a couple of times but I did nothing but laugh, as did Amy. When I was with my defense down, Isa decided to act and brought me the chocolate face she was preparing. Amy was laughing from a corner how we were both bathed in flour and chocolate. I looked mischievously at I
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He was smiling mischievously and my heart was beating like a drum.When we got to the kitchen, I turned on the light and went by inertia to look for the bowl where I remembered I had put it, but when I opened the shelf, it was gone. I looked at Ethan suspiciously and he was smiling innocently at me. I started looking for the bowl with the other cookies all over the shelves, until I saw that it was on the highest shelf in the kitchen. I scratched my head in confusion, I didn't remember putting it that far away. I stretched as far as I could, even stood on my tiptoes to try to reach it, but got nothing but a male chuckle broke the silence of the kitchen."Okay, there are the cookies. Don't eat them all. "I turned to face him and he came toward me, grabbing the cookies easily. He placed the bowl on the table and grabbed one, tasting it."Did you make them, really?""Yes, with my friends. Why do you ask?," I reached over and took a cookie too, taking a bite."Because they're delicious
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The sun streaming through the window and hitting right where my face was, woke me up. I grabbed a pillow and covered myself so it wouldn't bother me. It didn't work, I was still bothered by the heat. I got up and sat on my bed, yawned loudly and went to the bathroom only because my body is used to that routine, not because I am actually awake and aware of where I am going or what I am doing.My reflex caused me to open my eyes like saucers and wake up completely."My God, what the hell did I do last night?"I was scared to look at myself, my hair was a mess and my pajamas were half ripped down my thigh. Why? I had no idea. I tried to remember what I had done last night and listed them off on my fingers.1. I was with my friends in the bedroom, both of them asleep.2. I went up to the terrace.3. Ethan scared me.4. We talked for a while.5. He made a pass at me, as usual.6. He kissed me, I came down from the terrace, my pajamas got caught on a wire and when I pulled them off, they
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