"I wouldn't have fallen for you, damn it!" I shouted furiously. I tried to convince him and myself that he had manipulated me into liking him, but we both knew that that wasn't true. I knew the very moment my eyes laid upon him that something inside me had shifted as if a sudden revelation had surfaced inside of me. Before we had even spoken a word to each other, I was obsessed with every detail of his body, the finesse of every curve that defined him, the traces that molded him. I observed him from close and afar, awake or asleep, he consumed my thoughts. When I saw him, I thought to myself —
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