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Rumi touched her fingers to her ribs. She could feel the heat radiating from her skin, even through her clothes. A distant, miserable part of her said, this is going to hurt.
She pushed her fingers down.
The rib shifted.
The thing about telling one very big lie is that it requires a foundation of hundreds of smaller lies to hold it up, lies such as "I'm fine," and "nothing's broken," and "it doesn't hurt."
Rumi finds this out the hard way.
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Did it mean something?
Zoey thinks about a lot of things daily.
She likes turtles, and every time she learns a new fact about them, she tells Rumi about it for days. Same thing goes for any game, new food they try, those new shows she gets obsessed with every few months, or that song she can't stop replaying.
But she takes up too much space in Zoey's mind. It doesn't feel like those passing obsessions.
The way she stays in her head, the way she lingers, feels harder to explain.
She doesn't fade.
She doesn't disappear like everything does eventually.
Did it mean something?
"It did, Zo…"
Rumi's voice stops Zoey's spiral once again, and she leans back to look her in the eyes.
Zoey blinks. She feels her chest tighten at Rumi's confirmation.
It did mean something.
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—Rumi and Zoey decide to go look for Mira once again and have a second night with her after they can't stop thinking about her (and the threesome).
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- Part 2 of Romance (Polytrix)
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Rio is used to quiet mornings and carefully planned schedules. But when her new roommate Agatha storms into her life with a wicked grin, a chaotic personality, and teasing that won’t quit, Rio realizes her last year of college is about to get a lot more complicated.
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Rumi, Mira and Zoey end up attending the same interspecies college, and get randomly assigned as roommates.
Demon Rumi, Vampire Mira, and Werewolf Zoey - What could go wrong?
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The vampire looked down slowly at the mess on her clothes, then back up.Rumi’s heart slammed against her ribs like it wanted out.
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” the girl said, her voice cold and flat.
Rumi stepped forward without thinking, pressing the flimsy paper napkin against the slick black leather covered in her lunch.
“I—I’m so sorry,” she stammered, every syllable tripping over the last. “I didn’t mean—I wasn’t looking and—”
“You didn’t mean to walk straight?” the vampire snapped, voice slicing clean through her apology. “Or use eyes that work?”
Up close, the vampire’s presence hit like a cold front.
Terrifying, her instincts offered.
Beautiful, her brain added unhelpfully.
And here she was… rubbing at her chest.
The motion was clumsy and awkward—her brain screaming at her to help clean while her hands were busy doing exactly the kind of contact you’d never want to initiate with a stranger.
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Rumi sighed, unfolding her legs as she rolled over onto her back. “I just feel so…behind,” she said. “I mean, Zoey’s known she was bi since she was a kid. I’m twenty-four…aren’t I supposed to know this by now?”
The brush of fingertips against Rumi’s open palm was featherlight, but it was enough. Against her better judgement, Rumi turned her head to look up at Mira. Behind her glasses, Mira’s eyes were bright, and Rumi could not help but sit up to meet them properly. Something fluttered inside Rumi’s chest, sending a hot ripple down Rumi’s Patterns. But this wasn’t new, no, this just what it’s like to be around Mira. It always had been.
It always had been.