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Eve’s life had changed in unimaginable ways in such a short time. Ever since that night her son came home for the weekend. They had a lot to talk about. He did get on track to finish the semester, thank god.
Eve was shocked when he confessed to what happened between him and Chloe. Even more shocked when he took responsibility and seemed to understand how badly he fucked up.
The two of them did not discuss who Brendan had found her in bed with.
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Amanda took the whole situation in stride. This was way less personally complicated for her than the threesome with her ex, and her ex’s ex. Eve was glad to not have anything to worry about there.
Julian could barely look her in the eye for a while. But the last day of class, he gave her a hug.
He thanked her for everything.
She thanked him for everything. She felt the urge to cup his face one last time. Remind him he was beautiful, but she knew he was sure of that now.
He walked off to go meet up with his new girlfriend.
She smiled fondly at him as he disappeared down the hallway.
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“So the kid’s gonna be alright.” Amanda said, passing the pen to Eve.
“He is. But I mean can we really call him a kid?” Eve said with a chuckle.
“Fair enough. So are you gonna take another class now?” Amanda inquired.
“I thought about it. I don’t know, I mean I’m glad I took that one…for a lot of reasons obviously. I need to do something with my time.”
“What do you do normally?”
“Can I be honest? You can’t laugh at me.”
“Oh this is gonna be juicy. Spill it, Mackie.”
Eve smiled, still not used to hearing her maiden name. But glad to hear it from the mouth of a friend. “I…God I just watch porn. Like all the time.”
Amanda’s eyes widened and she started cackling.
“I said you couldn’t laugh at me. See you must think I’m a freak.”
Amanda put a comforting hand on Eve’s knee. “Eve, Eve, relax. First of all, I already knew you were a freak,” Amanda said with a wink. “Second of all, I’m more impressed than anything. Honestly I have trouble finding stuff worth watching.”
“Yeah well… in some ways I’m getting more frustrated with it. But dating is such a risk. It kind of feels safer to stay in fantasyland.”
“But is fantasyland satisfying you?” Amanda asked.
“No.”
“Then we gotta get you out of it. Tomorrow night I’m taking you out to the lesbian bar in town.”
“Oh God, am I ready for that?”
“Relax, I’ll be your guide. Though it’d probably be good if we went home with other people. No offense. And in exchange for my help, please tell me where the good lesbian porn is.”