Love on the Brain
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Read between March 31 - April 21, 2025
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He gives me an innocent look. “He does?”
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Once in a while Levi’s elbow brushes against mine, reminding me that I’m not wholly alone.
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There’s someone in my corner. A guy who loves Star Wars, and is too tall for space, and will take care of a kitten for half his life.
Monika
I want a Levi!
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Sam frowns, and from the corner of my eye I see Tim smirk.
Monika
Let me whisper something in your ear Tim.
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“I heard there were problems with your tenure packet. How’s that coming along?”
Monika
Oh Levi. You seriously have my heart.
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“Yeah. I thought so.”
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Holy shit. Holy shit.
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“Did everyone think that I hated you, back in grad school? It wasn’t just your delusion?”
Monika
If you could read the first part of this book.
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She’s standing right behind me, waiting for me to finish using the sink.
Monika
There is nothing to say.
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“Bee,” and I realize that she’s crying.
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“I missed you.”
Monika
You slept with her fiance.
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And I haven’t been able to make friends in Schreiber’s lab because they’re all dudes. Total WurstFest
Monika
That is your own problem you yourself created.
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And I—I never liked him, you know it. I despised him.
Monika
You slept with him.
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it—I thought of you the whole time.
Monika
Wait, was she inlove with you all along?
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I can just nod when he asks if I’m ready to go, and take his hand when he offers it.
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“Just whispering sweet nothings.”
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“You were always in my head. And I could never get you out.”
Monika
A love confession!
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What about now? Am I still in your head?
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Levi presses on the gas pedal.
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“What do you mean, ‘sexual intercourse is forbidden in work areas’?”
Monika
WHAT.
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“This conversation is a HIPAA violation.”
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I glance at Levi. His face is a blank void.
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inside he’s rolling with laughter like a pork in mud. Positive.
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“That was excellent practice for when we’ll have teenage daughters.”
Monika
Hehehe.
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I jump up and down excitedly. It’s obnoxious, but I can’t stop myself. Where does all this energy go when I try to run?
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“Am I a genius, or what?”
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“You ...
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He shrugs, and before I know what’s going on I’m in his arms and he’s spinning me around, my legs wrapped around his waist and his hands on my thighs. I laugh. I laugh like I’m happy.
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I’m building things, useful, important things. I’m facing demons from my past.
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I’m bubbling, exhilarated, brave. I’m the most myself and not myself at all.
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“Are you going to kiss me?”
Monika
Gasping!!!
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“Because I’m not sure you want me to kiss you.”
Monika
I WANT TO.
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mine. I really, really want a kiss from this man.
Monika
Not just you Bee.
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“I’m terrified that you won’t go far enough.”
Monika
Tell that to our children! It's absurd! Don't tell that to our children though.
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but she’s busy having a real, true, actual, honest-to-God good kiss.
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It has to do with how slow it starts.
Monika
YOU ARE ALREADY KISSING?
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life—but maybe it’s not a kiss at all. Just two people trying to be as close as possible.
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His hands are sliding up my ass.
Monika
Is there smut in this book?
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aflame, pulsating with want and need.
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It’s the exact spot, the exact rhythm I’d been trying to reach.
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He growls,
Monika
GUILTY ALI!
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He is winded, chest moving up and down.
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What you just did with Levi? He used to do it with her. And much more.
Monika
But you are here now.
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All the kisses Levi Ward is capable of, I want to sample them like fine wine.
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Anyway: the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Told him he wasn’t pink enough.”
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“I’m pretty useless. I mostly play UNO with Penny, or buy her slime that has some toxic ingredient—”
Monika
You are there. Don't be hard on yourself Levi.
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Since kindergarten.
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“On our final presentation, while the instructor was examining it, the cortex announced that it was smelling feces.”
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That’s why Levi needed to be on BLINK.