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When she’s Jen, she’s always wearing clothes.
But in this moment, he feels a surge of affection for her that he doesn’t think about too hard. He just likes her anger.
He has a sixth beer. “I’m so proud of you. You used to hide behind a pillow during the gory parts.
She imagines Jen crushing a small animal beneath her foot, slowly. Maybe a bunny.
That guy looks horny as hell. He isn’t tagged.
He looks at his hand, resting on his cup of coffee, and then observes the distance between his hand and Jake’s helpful face. It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other.
“She’s not like other people in service.
Alicia says it would be nice to have something to post other than funny content from other accounts.
working herself up into a state of self-conscious mania about her eye makeup.
cries in a silent, annoying way.
He’d be ruder to Alicia, but he doesn’t want them to think he’s a bad boyfriend.
Alicia excuses her tears by boring him with a complicated explanation about when her menstrual hormones kick in. Even a cursory analysis would reveal that the timing doesn’t make mathematical
There, they run into Jen.
She doesn’t take up the old, mean line of conversation.
He knows that, eventually, concrete changes will take place in his life, but he can’t conceive of any meaningful change that he’s capable of bringing about. Something will have to happen to him.
the image of this arrogant girl continuing with her life, thinking she’s free, with no idea that they can humiliate her whenever they want.
she counts each bullet going into her body, the way you’re supposed to count sheep. In
Alicia often wishes that her life retained some of the magic and discovery of her earlier years, even and especially during what her mom called her “illness.”
