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    Recently, Ava had been watching Youtube videos on mindfulness in an effort to try to increase the percentage of her thoughts she was able to keep just in her head. That training was about to fail her spectacularly. “One of the nuns is kind of cute.”

    Mary’s fingers paused mid stitch. Ava’s fork paused halfway to her mouth as her brain caught up with what she’d just said.

    “Ava, what the fu—”

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    Ava has to spend several weeks in a church archive. The person running the archive is a nun, and also hot. She is totally normal and respectful about this.

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    Beatrice finds herself musing not over duty and sacrifice and God, but the truth of angels, if they can be created rather than summoned. If they can take the form of women with overeager mouths and careless limbs and eyes with a depth that beckons - a crooked finger, a spiral staircase - if they can be both human and not, both beautiful and terrifying.

    Ava asks, What do you want, Beatrice?

    (Tell me and I’ll give it to you. Tell me and I’ll build you a home there. Tell me and I’ll rearrange the universe to make it all fit, angels and demons be damned. Tell me it’s me. Me. Me.)

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    “He might have mentioned that I should bring my girlfriend to the party,” she rushed out.

    Beatrice felt her stomach drop, her heart freeze, and her face burn.

    Girlfriend.

    “… Oh,” she said softly.

    “I would have corrected him, Bea, believe me. But then he kept talking and was saying something about the party being super hush-hush and only those in the know were allowed in. And – I think I had him trusting me, enough to invite us to go, at least. So, I figured in that moment if I told him that we – that we weren’t, that we’re not,” Ava cleared her throat. “Well, I didn’t want to break that trust by telling him. We could’ve lost the invite, or something. And like you said – this would be a great opportunity for reconnaissance.”

    “Reconnaissance,” Beatrice repeated, but her mind was miles away.

    Girlfriend.

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    Ava and Beatrice pretend to date in order to sneak into a First-Born Children's party. Beatrice deals with it. Sort of.

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    Pa wants to take her and Ink's relationship to the next level. There's just one problem: she's too embarrassed to ask for it.

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    If asked, Ji-wan will puff out her chest, raise her chin, and ball her fists to scream to the entire world if she has to, that coming to the conclusion that she likes Sol, as in likes likes Sol — as in, she wants to move in with her to a cottage on the countryside and raise pets and hold hands and kiss her and have Sol’s eyes on her at all times — was as easy as confronting myriad, unchangeable facts of the universe: the sun rises in the east, the moon revolves around the earth, no delicacy in the world can beat the banana milkshake available near her family home, and Ji-wan is in love with Sol.

    Only the sole rabbit plushie that Sol had miraculously won her a couple of years back at their high school fair got to see the extent of her blood-curdling, chilling confrontation with the truth of her feelings.

    OR: the trials and tribulations of being in love with your best friend.

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    07 Aug 2021