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“I was so stupid, taking off with no bodyguard and…” My voice trails off.Taking off with you, I want to say.You, who I don’t know.
But I am starting to know him. And I don’t know him well by any stretch of the imagination, but I do know one thing about him: he came to find me. And no one ever has before.
“You were under so much stress,” he says.
“I don’t have that luxury, do I? I can’t rebel. I can’t run away. I can’t have a personal crisis. I have finally run out of time. I have always been chased by time, and now, it’s running out.”
He doesn’t say anything.
It’s up to me now, isn’t it?
Maybe it always has.
And that’s when I decide something: If my time has indeed run out, then I won’t waste a second of it doubting and second-guessing myself.
Marco climbs to his feet. Dawn is beginning to break over the horizon outside the small window. The second sunrise we’re seeing together. This one is rather gray, threatening rain. Distant thunder booms again, and it sounds further away. I hope the rain will pass us by.
“Come on,” he says, looking out the window as well. “Let’s do it.”
“Let’s do what?”
“Vermont,” he replies.
“What about Vermont?”
“The whole lot. Christmas, snow, romance, the cheesy movies. Anything you can think of. For as long as you want.”
“How on earth are we supposed to do that when—?”
He leans down and kisses me again.
“You realize,” I say afterwards, my knees turned into jelly, “that I’ll never stop whining and asking stupid questions if you keep shutting me up like this.”
“You have never once whined since I’ve known you, especially given the fact…” He shuts his eyes and his sentence trails off. What was he going to say? “And your questions aren’t stupid,” he adds. “So I’m not shutting you up. I’m not. I just can’t resist you. When you talk, your lips move. And when your lips move, I… I can’t help it, I need to be part of the action.”
“That was the cheesiest line anyone has ever…”
Once more, his lips come down on my mouth, stealing my breath. I’m not complaining. I laugh against his mouth, and he does too. Our teeth clash.
“Like that,” he says, smiling around my mouth. “Exactly like that.”
/we the rotten royals/
News blast
We have gotten so many messages asking and speculating about our identities.
But here is the thing: You don’t know who we are, but we do. That is the whole point. We are the product of a rotten man, a rotten system, a rotten society. A rotten institution.
The rot is spreading and we will not be silent.
That is all you need to know about us.
#wetherottenroyals
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The thunder moves over us quickly without spilling any rain.
