Housewife Gone Wild

Ryan actually seemed pretty hungry. Once he’d polished off a bowl of rice, he popped his meds.

I glanced around the place–it was so peaceful, not a hint of noise anywhere.

“Don’t you have class or something?” I asked him.

“Yeah, I’m going back to school tomorrow,” Ryan replied. “What, you think I came to Shaville because I flunked out?”

I chuckled. “With your family, it doesn’t really matter where you go to school. Staying safe is what matters.”

Ryan laughed too. “I’m actually a pretty good student. I just came to Shaville for my own reasons.”

I nodded, taking his word for it.

“Sorry for making you come all this way. Do you think I’m being silly?” Ryan shot me a quick, almost shy glance as he asked.

“Not at all. Just get better soon,” I reassured him.

Ryan slouched onto the couch; eyes half–closed. “Relax, I’m not dying or anything. But honestly, I’m about to get depressed if I keep staying in. I just want to go out and do something fun.”

“Where do you want to go?” I asked with a smile.

a snowy mountain, go scuba diving…” Ryan’s eyes lost their spark. “But in reality, they won’t even let me

at the good–looking young man in front of me and thought, ‘When someone’s protected to this

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a total freak,” Ryan said, sadness in his eyes as he looked at me. “At first, they wouldn’t even let me go to Hachester to see you. They even control my

totally at a loss

at me. “You probably never imagined I have to negotiate

always thought Ryan was free to come and go as he pleased, but I never realized

if I said I wanted you, they’d

like my whole reality was

a bitter laugh. Then he added, “I’d never let them lay a finger on

down my back, and I found myself

his face. “You said you didn’t want to dig into

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know more about me.”

more hopeless it feels,” I said,