‘Yeah,’ I replied absently. Focus man! I chided myself. Logging in to my workstation, I resolved to concentrate on the next two hours of my shift....Yet, over those next two hours I found my mind drifting back to what happened earlier that day. *** I awoke the next morning to the hellacious screeching of my alarm clock. Blearily, I rolled over and fumbled and slapped blindly around until it fell blessedly silent. Squinting, I tried to focus my sleep-impaired eyes on the blue numbers glowing in. I stared at the screen, willing words to appear. The assignment was proving difficult and the ideas just weren't coming. But I'm a good student and I know how to persist. I'm in my second year at university now and I'm getting the hand of these difficult tasks and late nights in front of the laptop.My phone vibrates and I reach for it, grateful for an excuse to look away. A text, from Him.Hi Lumen. Haven't seen you in a while. I want to come round tonight- I'm really frustratedMy pulse. Today, I’d run out of homework to do, which was a miracle in and of itself. But of course, that left me extra time. Before, I probably would have just gone to Mr. Birnbaum’s class early, but after the past few days, I didn’t think that was the best idea. There were only ten minutes left in the period, so I decided I’d go try and see Mr. Bryant again. I’d had a meeting with him already today. I tried to make it seem that I was having trouble with Mr. Birnbaum’s class, that way I could just claim. "Rebecca grinned crookedly, remembering how she hadn't cleaned his come off her canvas tennis shoe when he had masturbated for her."Tie me up and make me trust you."Rebecca searched Jason's face as he processed her request. She saw his eyes flash to her wrists for a moment, making some secret calculation. When he looked at her eyes again, his "no" was so convincing, she thought she had offended him, but just as she felt her face flush with shame, he took her hand in his and bit her wrist just.