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Open door

Author: Jessie King
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Ahana

After a couple hours of uneventful sleep, my eyes open. My heart crashes as I remember the events of the previous night; witnessing Darien’s sex show with his girlfriend… right before giving them one of my own. I sigh and swallow back yet another lump that wants to form in my throat. No, there will be no more crying. This is the situation, and it’s either I swim in it… or sink. And I refuse to sink.

Getting off the bed, I walk to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I look at the unspectacular woman staring back at me. With small breasts and a stomach more rounded than it should be, my wide hips almost help to salvage the situation. Almost. With skin coloured the same brown as a cut apple left standing for too long, an odd brown that is neither classified fair nor dark skinned, a forehead a good inch or two wider than it needs to be, and a ridiculously wide gap between my two front teeth, I know Amanda and the very many people puzzled by our coupling, are right. Aput can do a whole
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