Touch Me While I Taste You

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Arabella Rivera

“This is so stupid.” Gwen groaned her blonde hair whips behind her shoulders. Her long nails tapped on her bedazzled steering wheel as she focuses her eyes on the road ahead.

“What is?” I asked half-interested, half not. My mind was too occupied with thoughts of, him. Why was I jealous of Sasha? I barely know the girl.

My mood had drained and turned into crap from the moment Sasha and I’s conversation ended. I was never the go lucky, preppy girl like Gwen. I was more o n the salty, tense and mind your damn business side. But still, my mood had never dropped this low.

“Like why waste your time making up a rumor if it’s not true? Here all the girls he dumped thought he finally got what he deserved only to be handed a platter of lies and disappointment. She made the entire female population ashamed.” Gwen hissed, fingers turning a shade of ash as she gripped the wheel a little

tighter than necessary.

I rolled my eyes. She had been talking about this from the moment we left the school’s ground. Don’t get me wrong I was happy that Sasha had succeeded in killing off the blazing fire of lies about Haiden, but I wasn’t exactly in the mood t o hear about a guy I can’t keep out of your head.

“That’s exactly why they call it a rumor Gwen, it’s lies made for morons to believe. In other words, you’re stupid to even believe what others say.” I let out without thinking. Admittedly, I haven’t been thinking straight for a couple of days now. 1

Whatever left my mouth nowadays were just fragments of the ticking time bomb o n the tip of my tongue.

Gwen gives me a side-eye, face scrunching up with the look of startlement and confusion. “What or who got your panties in a knot today? You have been awfully more hostile and moody.”

“My panties are un-knotted thank you very much.” I mumble.

I looked out the window, latching my eyes on the buildings and little shops on the side of the road as we raced past them. This part of town was always my favorite. It’s where I would get a glimpse of, them.

The little happy family that owned a pet shop. They always looked so chirpy and happy as they talked to their customers. But it wasn’t exactly that, that drew my intrigue.

It was the raw look of love passing between parents and son. Something so rare that I now looked forward to catching a glimpse of that rare emotion every day.

When the pet shop came into view my heart skipped a beat. It always does. I never really figured out why. But somewhere deep, deep down inside, I knew that it was because I lacked what they had. Love was never an expression I expressed

to

o naturally

with a little ginger-colored kitten cuddled in his arm. His mother laughed as she hurried t o catch

how the man playfully pecked his wife’s nose, seeming to be happy that one of their animals just

the attention on him. They laughed caging him into a warm

smile, my very first one today that finally reached

left Gwen’s mouth to snap me out of my haze of gazing

Gwen, furrowing my eyebrows a REOMSI stared at the

period meltdown? You know

isn’t

it means the

to be thinking.” The saying is

genius best friend, I’m wrong. You win.” She huffs turning the

but feel the weight of dread overcome my entire body. The house looked so bland among all the colorful

blank canvas that had been painted over to outweigh and hide the imperfections that were still hidden under

No face

you tomorrow.

the bag strap over my shoulder.” Yeah.”

“Wait.” She called out.

for her to continue. “Do you think my boobs look bigger with cup bras or lace? Or should I just wear

go with cup bras. The push-ups

the chirpy blonde. “And why am I now hearing

seeing that I couldn’t get

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then flips her hand.

moody anymore. So AI QUAwhat color lingerie should

you say brown, I rather die,

die,

lips tipped into a