WHEN DESIRE IS WRONG

Jones

rich men like to be called Daddy

of the line, it's borderline if

or grandfathers, they are children who ca

on't hurry you'

, give me five minutes

have to take if I want to get to work on time. Impossible to pass in front of him since this sidewalk is at the side of the

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d switch my phone

than her, I remind you I'm about to

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ndecent sentences coming from the male gender. I raise my middle finger in response and don't bother to look to

getting everyone drunk.

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before, no

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to get in front

y word, you coul

bably be the right one

t!I arrive at the staircase that I take every other time and climb the steps two by two. I have the strong impression that my

enter, I run back down the street and arrive in

n about my obstacle course before he has already taken possession of my t

re th

les me as I desperately tr

SHA

we both stand up at the same time be

with narrowed eyes. He probably didn

re are so many

yebrow and c

hift starts at seven, why are

ng a knot on my apron. I grab my clipboard after giving E

ere and you have no reason to be here!" I hear with

fore you can quit this shitty jo

come to UPSIDE DOWN,

miles, having great self-control in the face of remarks or insults. Fortunately, the food a

done, shall

:46 p.m. and all I want to do is go home. An

wards me and places hi

I reply w

y enjoy walking in these streets when night falls, I know how to defend myself but I remain a 23 year old wo

rush, leave m

Sasha Jones in such a state. No, b

n't you ashamed to lie like that?

of the apartment and open the door. Ethan enter

ur apartme

times bigger,

rs is warmer and cozier" H

zy" somewhere. He has loved this word ever

er. I really like my apartment and I was lucky to be

popularity, I always managed to get out with excellent grades because the heads of my high school were happy to do my homework for me or because certain teachers favored me.

don't care if you understand anything, the most important

, I didn't see the point, especially since I did

d being pretty and popular in high school doesn't do much good o

accept the scholarships that were offered to me, whether for Yale or Harvard, but he was

e in and thanks to him I got a lit

ved m

t any prese

e to drop them off earlier bef

te in front of the d

ks with a frown. I nod

ing on?" I questio

iately know what he's going to

rki

. It's always the same thing to believ

t, taking out the

d dollar bag will

put it in a good light I'm goi

doing this, even though it's h

further delay that Ethan and I resumed o

....

ringing of my

utters the half-breed

nd answer it before

lurt out wh

as

is head and stares at me with one open eye before straightening u

I'm sorry, did I hav

.no i

ou missed m

heart. Maybe it's because it's been a lon

are you c

ms to last forever. Then it's as if I felt

ack to New Y

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