I'll Have Two Number Nines Novels & Stories

“Let me teach you how to wear it.” Our hands brush—scar to scar. The twin marks on our wrists pulse, the ones we’ve carried since the crib, numerals etched into skin like cursed clockwork. Today, they read **236**. I’ve memorized the way hers mirrors mine: the same jagged font, the same sourceless heat when the numbers shift. We used to joke they were lottery tickets to hell. Now, with Esteban’s shadow clawing at the walls, they feel like a fuse burning.

Nine-fifteen. Nine-twenty.

She carefully picked up each piece from the trash. She worked patiently to put them back together. There were exactly ninety-nine make-up cards. She remembered five years ago when she had looked at the cards with sincerity and said, “Yoel, don’t worry. I’ll never give you a chance to use them.” She also remembered all the times she had casually offered to use them over the years. The feelings she had worked so hard to save had been wasted in the two years with Connor until they were completely gone. Yvette, who had always been careful about numbers, seemed to lose all sense of the ninety-nine make-up cards whenever Connor was around.

Grant said. “Number 2?” I asked.

"Madame Dalia, I assure you, Nine is pregnant. Maybe it is someone you don't know if but these tests do not lie. Nine is pregnant," Nine sat there quietly, staring at the floor, and, to her, it seemed like the world broke in two.

I started typing. Numbers. Numbers. Numbers.

I ain’t got time to play pretty or play nice. He wasn’t expecting that, for sure. “Can I get your number at least?” he tries again. My patience has worn thin. I look him dead in the eye and say, “229-Segdick.”

truly it's night already but I don't want to leave his company, he needs me as much as I need him. "You will soon be going, so can I have your number this time" If I give him my original number, he will find out about me being Rose, so I gave him my second number that is not registered in W******p. "I will call you bunny" he said and I nodded. He paid for our food and I made him promise to let me handle the next bills. "Good night bunny" he said as I am about to board the bus, it's already late so only few tricycle are around.

55% na Si Jin...75%... 😑😑😑. ..si ako naman... 25% pa lang... Isali mo pa ang pressure na tinitignan ni Sir ang gawa. Oo, namanhid na ang mata ko sa kakatingin sa subject na yun. Sino naman kasi ang nag-isip no'n...tsss. Bigla akong nauhaw. May water station sa isang sulok... Umalis muna ako...

I forced back the tears in my eyes and the vomit rising in my throat. ‘It’s fine,’ I told myself quietly. ‘With that, all 99 coupons have been used up. ‘I’m leaving you for good, Leonard.’