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too. Listen, I have to run, but promise me that you’ll text me later?” Aubrey demanded. Annabella could tell she was serious.
    “I promise Aubrey. Tell everyone I said hi,” Annabella told her best friend. Then she switched her phone off and began the walk home.
     
                                   ***

    Sitting on couch in his garage, Travis began thinking about Annabella for what felt like the millionth time, yet he couldn’t understand why. He literally just met her. He wasn’t sure if it was the fact that she wore clothes that were five sizes too big for her, or if it was her ability to resist him. Every girl he met since he started hitting the gym at fourteen threw themselves at him, but she didn’t. She seemed to be oblivious to his looks, and that fascinated him. It drew him to her. He knew from that moment he had to know her.
    “Hey.” A woman’s voice called from the doorway while Travis checked Facebook on his phone. When he looked up, Marissa leaned against the doorjamb. She wore a tank top, which revealed her belly button, and a red, leather mini skirt that completely threw Travis off, and not in the good way. Several months passed by since Travis ended their relationship, yet she didn’t seem to get the clue. She wouldn’t stop calling and dropping by.
    “What are you doing here, Marissa?” Travis asked turning all of his attention back to his phone.
    “I came to see you. I miss you,” she responded, sitting on the couch next to him.
    “Well that’s funny because the feeling isn’t mutual.”
    “You don’t mean that Travy,” Marissa said, using the nickname he hated so much. It was the one she’d given him the first time they were ever intimate together. He refused to call it making love because even though he’d cared about her, he never loved her. Even more, it was only to be remembered as decent sex, not that he was sure he could even call it that anymore.
    “I do mean that. With every fiber of my being,” he replied just as Marissa ripped the phone from his hand and sat on his lap. She began to kiss him.
    He didn’t fight her off at first, in fact he felt like giving in, but then Annabella somehow surfaced in his mind. He couldn’t stand the girl he was kissing.
    “Get the hell off me,” Travis said, pulling away.
    “What’s the matter with you? You know you want me,” Marissa told him, her tone full of confidence.
    “That’s just it: I don’t want you. You know exactly why we ended and nothing has changed. Get the fuck out before I throw you out!” He didn’t care that he was being cruel.
    “Fine, have it your way. But we both know that you’ll come crying back, on your knees for all of this,” Marissa said, sliding a hand down her body.
    “You’re delusional. Goodbye Marissa.” Travis dismissed her with a laugh and shut the door in her face.
    “Travis what’s all the screaming about?” When he turned around, his mother was standing at the door that led back to the house.
    “Sorry Mom; Marissa was just here,” Travis stated, quite annoyed. He didn’t know what else he could do to make her understand just how little he wanted to do with her. If she understood, maybe she’d vanish from his life for good.
    “Yeah, well I hope you told her if she ever comes back here that she’d be arrested for harassment and trespassing,” Casey said in a cold voice. She didn’t like Marissa as far as she could throw her from day one.
    “I told her not to come back. What are you doing home so early?”
    “I wasn’t feeling well. What do you want for dinner?” she asked, waving for Travis to come into the house.
    “I don’t care. Anything you make is fine with me.”
    “I checked the balance to the card today, by the way. You’re great at saving, so care to tell me what in the world you spent a hundred and fifty dollars on?” She sounded curious.
    “Remember that girl at the restaurant last night?” Travis asked, not sure if he wanted to have