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Zyod just gawped.
“Maybe I could stay a little longer…” he said.
“Goodbye, Zyod,” I said.
Zyod screwed up his mouth.
“See you again soon,” Zyod said to Vicky. “I have to take off.”
“Okay,” Vicky said. “See you soon.”
Zyod whistled as he left the apartment.
I watched Vicky as she finished cleaning up and tossed the damp paper in the bin.
The truth was, I had no knowledge of humans. Were they monogamous? Or did they prefer to have multiple partners? Maybe—and this really made me gulp—they preferred multiple partners at the same time.
The silence that followed was all-encompassing and did nothing to make me feel better.
“So how did your thing go?” she said. “Zyod mentioned something about your mom?”
“It went fine,” I said.
I picked up the cream cake Zyod had bitten into and dumped it in the garbage can. Then I reached for Vicky’s but she was quick to pull it out of reach.
“Not yet!” she said. “I’m not finished!”
She looked me over and must have noticed my dark mood.
I let the garbage can pedal go. The lid slammed shut, making a loud clang noise.
“Mm,” Vicky said. “It’s delicious.”
“I bet it was,” I said, images of her and Zyod running like a movie through my mind.
What had they gotten up to before I returned home?
Was there a reason she was wearing one of my T-shirts?
Did they hear me coming and she had to hurry and get dressed?
“Why are you using the past tense?” Vicky said. “I’m still eating it.”
“How long was Zyod here?” I said, moving to the sink and washing my hands.
I wish I could scrub my memories as easily.
“Not long,” she said. “Maybe twenty or thirty minutes?”
“It’s dangerous to let strangers in,” I said. “After what happened at the park the other day, I didn’t think you would want to take the risk.”
“I recognized him from when you bought me at Star Cross’d Lovers. I figured he was a friend of yours.”
“He is.”
I turned the faucet off.
“But even friends can be dangerous,” I said.
