“Why so tense?” “No idea,” I confessed, plucking a napkin from the dispenser and beginning to clean my face off. “Were you nervous abo...t meeting me, Tom?” she teased. “No!” I scoffed, feeling I had sufficiently cleaned my face of Pizzatella’s secret sauce. “Missed a spot,” she smirked, pushing a finger into her tanned and freckled cheek. I swiped at my cheek with the napkin, but apparently to no avail. She bit her lip playfully, “Nope.” She wetted a napkin with a delicate tongue. I came out and helped a couple of the last sober ones clean up the house. My sister and Jan were stumbling around a lot, so I directed them to my sister’s room.After everyone left, it was about 11:30. I still had a while before mom got home to take my pictures.I was still feeling a little buzzed and very brave.I walked over to my sister’s room and opened the door quietly. I really didn't need to do that, they were already passed out cold.The sight before me was great!Both were laying diagonal. The girl she spends so much time chatting with in the canteen and in her room."Ana blushed. She hadn't thought that her friendship with Binta had attracted so much attention. Was Ferhana expressing resentment at Ana's friendship? If so, her face didn't express any sign of it. And anyway, Ana reflected, why should Ferhana or anyone else mind that she was developing such a close friendship? She had no friends in Blad other than those she had made at the Brothel."Binta. Yes, I know. I've seen her.. Additionally, in her toilette, she used much less parfum than other ladies of the day, who used it to mask their natural body odors. Finally, she required her lovers to be as clean and sweet smelling as she was. I believe that is why her chamber, with that big, copper tub, was the center of her plans of conquest.They used it with Hugh as well.I knew of his summoning only because I heard the swish of skirts at a time of night when no skirts should have been swishing, and looked out a window to.
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