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“Thoughts? What kind of thoughts?”
“Logical thoughts. About sleeping with you. Sleeping with someone else. At the same time.”
“A threesome?”
“No!” Riff groaned. “I meant… you know… the same time. But not together.”
“You’re flustered, Riff.”
I smiled.
This side of Riff was interesting.
He never got flustered.
It was actually a little cute.
“I’m trying to do the right thing here,” he said.
“So you didn’t want to sleep with me and then go sleep with someone else,” I said.
“Yes. Correct.”
“Meaning you should tell me about someone else and then that someone else about me.”
“Again… correct.”
“Would you want me to do the same for you?”
Riff’s eyes grew wide. “Why? Are you…”
I shrugged my shoulders.
“Seriously, Fi?” Riff asked. “You and I… we go at it… I don’t wear any protection.”
“Trust me, I know,” I smiled.
“That’s not funny. I’m not okay with other guys…”
“Oh, excuse me. Are you telling me what I can and cannot do with my body?”
“Whoa. No. Not at all. But I can decide what I do with mine.”
“You are all worked up today, Riff,” I said. “I haven’t been fucking anyone else but you. How would I? I don’t know anyone else around here. And if it bothers you so much, the truth about my ex? The guy who proposed to me? The last time we had sex… months. Okay?”
“Months? What kind of guy can be near you and go months without pouncing?”
“That’s sweet of you to say,” I said. “Talking like that in a storage closet.”
“It’s not just that.”
“Not just what?”
“The date thing. I didn’t even want the date to begin with. That’s a whole other thing though. But this… the painting thing. That’s out of left field, right?”
“Maybe. I don’t know. I told you I wanted a break. And this kind of fell into my lap. I met this Demi woman and she demanded I paint. She gave me all that stuff for free. Not that I wouldn’t have paid for it. It just… it feels good.”
“It’s tough for me to see,” Riff whispered. “Okay? That’s the truth. Whether it’s supposed to or not. It’s shocking. You. Painting. I always liked when you painted, Fi. And then things…”
