“You gonna stop with the small talk, Sweetness?” “I actually enjoy small talk. It’s what you do when you get to know someone.” She squints at me in judgment and juts her head forward. There it is, her little angry streak. “Well, we clearly have different approaches to getting to know someone,” I joke, partly referring to what we did in the forest. “Yeah, mine usually starts with a date and seeing the person’s face,” Violet counters. I wish I found Violet’s attitude off-putting, but it’s honestly really fucking hot when she talks back to me. “Fine, since you still seem convinced that I’m a
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