Entire day passed, still no reply o acceptance of d friend request.At night at around 11.30 I got an msg from her… ‘hi’… and I was happy she a...cepted my request. And from there our chatting started… Basically it was just hi, how are you and all…After almost a week we started discussing about relationships and al… And I came to know that she’s just broken up with her guy. I told her about my past and all… Days went by… And I asked her out… Just for coffee…So the next day we meet up as planned.. Mene kaha aisa kya tha us holu m jo is me nahi to wo khte khte run gyi phr boli kuch nahi mene kaha tum btao to mjhe tbhi to him waise hi holi mnaynge ab uski aankhon m achanak se chamak dikh rhi thi but wo boli tumse nhi ho payega. Mene kaha aisa kuch nhi h tum kaho to phr wo mere pass m baithkr mere thigh pr hath phirane lgi aur boli ki last time mene holi apne pati k sath bed pr band rum m mnayi thi. Bs uska itna kahne ki dair thi aur mene uske lips par apne lips rakh diye aur chusne laga.. Told as if it might matter is not quite the most humiliating thing ever.” She’s almost whispering, she’s speaking so softly now. “The only thing worse is knowing that it did matter: feeling good that you thought I’d done something hard.” She’s pressed up against me again.“Aubrielle,” I ask, “do you want to get comfortable with commoners? At the end of this do you want to be able to go into a room of rowdy miners and sell yourself? Or do you just want to get past this training and whore yourself. “Yeah, I get it, I think too much, I know I do, but that’s how I survive. What she got up to would have destroyed a lot of men. Other guys would have kicked her out the first time. It hurt me when she sprang it on me, more than she realised, more than I let her see. It did make me think, and thinking got me through.”“It’s part of why she loves you.”“What was it you said a minute ago? Shamelessly naked? What did you mean?”“I told you we met in a store changing room. When she stripped she wasn’t.