It's been over two weeks since Evetta and I first had sex, and we've done it at least once each day.586Please respect copyright.PENANAnYsRyLXVeS
586Please respect copyright.PENANAaKVq8ood8Q
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It's amazing.586Please respect copyright.PENANAUp7UQBDFyt
586Please respect copyright.PENANAWzVmIGHlmK
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I'm one hundred percent sure that Evetta is the girl that I want to love, to fuck, to be with for the rest of my life, but before I propose, I have to get this out of the way.586Please respect copyright.PENANA6GuXKy2SXr
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"Come on Caleb, you've driven all this way... just go inside, and face them," I say to to myself under my breath, giving myself a mini pep talk.586Please respect copyright.PENANAdje7JXqqrB
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Finally, after sitting in my car for over ten minutes and staring at the front of the veterinary clinic, I cut the engine, get out of the car and lock it, and walk up to the front door.586Please respect copyright.PENANA4NDrtZuS6T
586Please respect copyright.PENANAyfJjNhCLVb
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When I walk into the waiting room, the receptionist, Maria, looks up to greet whoever entered the office.586Please respect copyright.PENANAc8FRMLulGV
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"Good morning, welcome to— holy fuck, Caleb?" she shrieks.586Please respect copyright.PENANAOUMTqmC861
586Please respect copyright.PENANAyEF3qQetOJ
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"Yeah," I say, my cheeks on fire, because everyone in the waiting room is now paying attention to me, except for a young man who is wearing a pair of headphones, listening to MCR's "The Ghost of You"; it's that loud, I can hear it from where I'm standing, at least five feet away from him.586Please respect copyright.PENANAWljMastgic
586Please respect copyright.PENANAn5NKazedZp
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One of the vets, who is also the owner of the clinic — Eli — rushes out to see what's wrong.586Please respect copyright.PENANADHOOhII6D4
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"Maria, what— Caleb?" he asks, as if he can't believe that I'm real.586Please respect copyright.PENANAjfSsnWLw10
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"Yeah," I respond lamely.586Please respect copyright.PENANAQbnpAWeLMZ
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"We thought you'd never come back! That you were severely injured! Had major brain damage, or were physically—"586Please respect copyright.PENANACChLiF4jtf
586Please respect copyright.PENANA1N6lIURFNR
586Please respect copyright.PENANAIMMH7DZY0V
"No. I wasn't emotionally ready, I guess."586Please respect copyright.PENANACdy4LD5OPO
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Yet another one of my colleagues — Amanda — comes out into the reception area.586Please respect copyright.PENANAl09Io2FwXw
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"Caleb? Oh, my god!"586Please respect copyright.PENANAIowZLeV2r3
586Please respect copyright.PENANAEC1hAHBcQz
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Suddenly, something hits me.586Please respect copyright.PENANALH3o0J56HX
586Please respect copyright.PENANAMFbrQfTzBo
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I've been out for over a year; what if I've been replaced?586Please respect copyright.PENANATdYkDCdTUD
586Please respect copyright.PENANA2eSDdVRez9
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"Um... Eli... Do I still have a—"586Please respect copyright.PENANAYpBSeUGwh6
586Please respect copyright.PENANAIuF3Ur5ADA
586Please respect copyright.PENANAw3EFyLOScO
"Job? Fuck, yes! We need as many vets as we can get!"586Please respect copyright.PENANAobob8DxQYC
586Please respect copyright.PENANApI0FEl2gOF
586Please respect copyright.PENANA3tqDFAQbdB
"Yer fuckin' righ', I've been wai'n' her' fer' two hours!" one man shouts.586Please respect copyright.PENANADt21eyCUcA
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We all turn to look at him. He has an orange kitten with white stripes in his lap. He's young, and, and about Evetta's complexion; like Evetta, he seems to be mixed with black and multiple other races that you'd probably never figure out on your own (Evetta's maternal grandmother is Indonesian, her maternal grandfather is half Syrian; her father's father's father was Indian, hence her last name, Maji.) He has the same hair texture as her; kinky, but, at the same time, curly, springy spirals shooting in every direction.586Please respect copyright.PENANAdgMOyVxpGG
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I remember pulling on that hair last night—586Please respect copyright.PENANAxZkG8UZvy2
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586Please respect copyright.PENANAwZsa4Yy9RN
Stop.586Please respect copyright.PENANAgbn08ZEvfU
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Why must I think of her everywhere I go? To be honest, he doesn't look like her; it's just that when you're in love, everything reminds you of that person.586Please respect copyright.PENANAL5lWdO2vg1
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I turn to look at Eli.586Please respect copyright.PENANAwo0Dl67Ryh
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"When can I start working?" I ask him.586Please respect copyright.PENANA8Zdbm4wh09
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"Next Tuesday. We need to get everything in order for you."m586Please respect copyright.PENANABm5uwwkIas
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"Okay. Thanks, Eli. Bye, guys." I say to him, rushing back out of the clinic, relieved that the encounter is over. I don't miss the 'I'm glad he's okay and back, but what the fuck just happened?' look on all of their faces.586Please respect copyright.PENANAHOPxioYMHx
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That actually went a lot better than I thought it would.586Please respect copyright.PENANA8jNckyhZj7
586Please respect copyright.PENANA2szUxVehXy
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Now, I feel like less of a spineless bitch. Now, I feel a little more deserving of Evetta.586Please respect copyright.PENANAF5q2xrV09I
586Please respect copyright.PENANA1zQBsftgYi
586Please respect copyright.PENANAN3r9NN557J
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***586Please respect copyright.PENANAVRVyQhZ07U
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One of the funniest things is watching Evetta attempt to explain Jamaican slang to me.586Please respect copyright.PENANAFprpVIBqor
586Please respect copyright.PENANAjKt9yHWcWT
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Some words, I know because she told me before the coma, but sometimes, she'll spit out something new, or something that she's never properly explained to me before.586Please respect copyright.PENANAmLCLngdNdA
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For example, I know that rass is an expletive, but yesterday, she was telling me a story about this girl and how she "rass har inna har face".586Please respect copyright.PENANAysvvP3dic0
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She explained that in that context, it meant that she just hit her really hard.586Please respect copyright.PENANAu4cQuYGSSI
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Today however... today, it's not that simple.586Please respect copyright.PENANAkEdKU9D2aQ
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We were watching 'Wallace and Grommet: The Curse of the Were Rabbit' on DVD on her laptop, and I had to comment on how ridiculous the whole thing was.586Please respect copyright.PENANAQrBU4QNOAk
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"If he has no mouth, how does he eat? How does that even work? Does he live off of a drip—"586Please respect copyright.PENANAISzSP8DrqH
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586Please respect copyright.PENANAqwHeZLz5rJ
Evetta interrupted me by 'kissing her teeth' — making a sound by sucking air through her teeth, locked together while her tongue was pressed firmly behind them.586Please respect copyright.PENANAWQbJwTm5Zz
586Please respect copyright.PENANAxuXVL1LUPh
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"Ya ova pree di ting."586Please respect copyright.PENANAMdHP8Jbpwi
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Ova pree?586Please respect copyright.PENANACJbqiiXlqt
586Please respect copyright.PENANA9a2ETzcEHK
586Please respect copyright.PENANAyy79B8AXbv
"'Ova pree'? What does that men?"586Please respect copyright.PENANAN0MZHl7Yd5
586Please respect copyright.PENANAh7eqG2vjnr
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So now, she's attempting to explain what 'ova pree' means to me.586Please respect copyright.PENANAW6g9reXP35
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She has this funny habit of using more patois to explain patois when she can't explain it in English.586Please respect copyright.PENANAI6ViKJIngj
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"Is when... uh a watch it too haad."586Please respect copyright.PENANA4Ftm5B8hSG
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I chuckle.586Please respect copyright.PENANAKT6llbPKty
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586Please respect copyright.PENANAdMNQnmVj9O
"What do you mean by 'I'm watching it too hard'?586Please respect copyright.PENANAx8QH6w9ekS
586Please respect copyright.PENANAvKVRZB7O0C
586Please respect copyright.PENANAbMHY0PMIJv
Her forehead crinkles, and she thinks for a minute.586Please respect copyright.PENANAplq5hDacK8
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"You're thinking too much. Certain things require suspension of disbelief, and enjoying a comedy about a mouthless dog is one of them; so stop thinking so much, and enjoy the fucking movie," she says with a giggle.586Please respect copyright.PENANAXlBrG1jVm1
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"So 'pree' means 'think'?" 586Please respect copyright.PENANABDNhiUhOjr
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"Or observe. It depends on the context."586Please respect copyright.PENANAdDSxf11Vli
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We resume watching the movie, with me continually making comments, and her telling me to shut up until the very end.586Please respect copyright.PENANA1ugfExvcJX
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When it's over, she puts away her laptop, and goes into the bathroom to get ready for bed.586Please respect copyright.PENANAMaljyBET9M
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When she leaves, I enter, brushing my teeth as I look into my eyes. When I just woke up, they looked lifeless, empty; now, they look like a bright, vibrant shade of green — "a bright jade", that's how Evetta describes it.586Please respect copyright.PENANAcu1V0Ltxwv
586Please respect copyright.PENANADlAJqXpzgp
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When I exit the bathroom; I go to lie down behind her, and wrap my arm firmly around her stomach.586Please respect copyright.PENANAWjkDxdKnYU
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"Eve?" I say.586Please respect copyright.PENANAv2iNa99HdU
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"Yeah?"586Please respect copyright.PENANAe1Gyy0fiYQ
586Please respect copyright.PENANA8s8gB2K9vr
586Please respect copyright.PENANA4kMtrjCDOM
"I love you," I tell her, because I really do, and I intend to remind her of that. A lot.586Please respect copyright.PENANAhIAPiV8Ret
586Please respect copyright.PENANARnkyy7baI2
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"I love you too."586Please respect copyright.PENANAJuLEfRF7u8
586Please respect copyright.PENANAyWrpBxvu8O
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I smile to my self, grinning like the lovesick fool that I am. I never get tired of hearing that; it fucks me up every time.586Please respect copyright.PENANAmaCkAze36q
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***586Please respect copyright.PENANA8bX6oRQogX
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Remember when I told you that Evetta uses Post-it papers to remind me of shit that I'll more than likely forget.586Please respect copyright.PENANAhylTAIHbi7
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Well, I've decided to use that to get creative.586Please respect copyright.PENANA9rXCMbvKF7
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Sticking the note onto the mirror, I quietly exit the bathroom while she sings to herself in the shower with her phone playing music in the background — good god, her singing is atrocious, I'm trying so hard to not laugh out loud — and close the door.586Please respect copyright.PENANAAoV4ZQrhN9
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Now to sit on her bed. And wait.586Please respect copyright.PENANAG1i6mKJ24T
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This is so painful.586Please respect copyright.PENANAic1HMkvoZr
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I can usually predict her next move, but now... I don't know.586Please respect copyright.PENANAAkq7R37Fni
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What if the condensed water on the mirror causes the note to fall off?586Please respect copyright.PENANAkf88Ec3Edm
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What if she isn't ready?586Please respect copyright.PENANAAORd6vsL0F
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What if—586Please respect copyright.PENANAoOTQaHLUtp
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The shower stops.586Please respect copyright.PENANAWs911CeGJC
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"Was she that girl that's from the video? Was she that girl that's from the video? Stop, stop lying to—"586Please respect copyright.PENANAwEN3UfcZvg
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The singing stops, leaving FKA twigs's voice playing from her phone.586Please respect copyright.PENANAGZND7osTC2
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Then:586Please respect copyright.PENANAGXfn5Swezr
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"AAAHHHHHHH!" she screams so loudly, so high-pitched, that she probably broke the mirror and ruptured an eardrum.586Please respect copyright.PENANAPH1Aak14MZ
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That can't be in response to the two-worded question I stuck onto the bathroom mirror.586Please respect copyright.PENANAHZ9hho3fh3
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"What the fuck?" I say to myself, jumping off of the bed and rush into the bathroom, nearly ripping it off of it's hinges.586Please respect copyright.PENANAu9vHMuObrw
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"Evetta, wha—"586Please respect copyright.PENANA0zaBp8JL9d
586Please respect copyright.PENANApHzq8WDXyN
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She jumps on me, and because I'm not expecting it, we both fall to the floor; I feel a weird sense of Deja Vu, remembering the first time we had sex. This time, however, insisted of being embarrassed, I'm so fucking confused.586Please respect copyright.PENANAJnXbcRHgV4
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"What the fu—"586Please respect copyright.PENANAukchuu2g2f
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586Please respect copyright.PENANA2XpEWCrJOu
"YASS!" she sobs with tears streaming down her face. She's so loud that it hurts my head; I felt my eardrums vibrate just now, but all of that's the least of my problems right now because she just said yes.586Please respect copyright.PENANAcpdOhUIKN3
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She said yes.586Please respect copyright.PENANA0m8yy33FqE
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To me.586Please respect copyright.PENANAKC36huUJxW
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We're going to get married.
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