{\rtf1\mac\ansicpg10000\cocoartf102 {\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset77 Helvetica;} {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;} \margl1440\margr1440\vieww11580\viewh9680\viewkind0 \pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\ql\qnatural \f0\fs24 \cf0 Will let out a huge sigh as he closed the door to his apartment behind himself.\
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\ The exterminator had arrived, and needed a few hours to fumigate the apartment. Grace stood behind him as he locked the door.\
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\ "You're going to lock him in?" Grace asked, still chewing on a sucker, this time, it was cherry.\
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\ Will laughed and then unlocked the door. "Habit."\
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\ Getting into the elevator, Grace removed the sucker from her mouth and asked, "Where exactly are we going?"\
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\ Will shrugged. "We could go to Alexei's apartment, it's not that far away."\
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\ "Who's apartment?"\
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\ Will suddenly remembered he'd been planning to NOT talk about Alexei. "Oh... ummm, I meant Karen. We should go to Karen."\
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\ "Who's A-lex-ee-ah?" Grace asked, already about to guess.\
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\ "Awww... Shit." Pushing the button for the ground floor into the elevator, Will realized it wouldn't be a good idea to lie now that he'd said that name. "Alexei. It's Russian. I mean, he's russian. He's... the guy I told you about. Rather, the guy I didn't tell about..."\
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\ "You picked up another guy who doesn't speak english?" Grace laughed.\
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\ "No, he speaks English... But with a really heavy, sexy accent..."\
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\ Grace bit into her sucker, crushing it into piece between her teeth. "Russian?"\
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\ Will tried to mimick a Russian accent. "That's what I said, darling. Russian." \
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\ Grace was chewing on the gum from the center of her sucker as she rolled her eyes. "You know how I feel about you doing accents."\
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\ "Right, right." Will remembered as the elevator door opened on the ground level of their building. They started walking in towards the street.\
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\ "So... can we actually go to Alexei's?" Grace asked.\
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\ "Ummm... No. No, I don't think so. We could just walk around, eat somewhere, shop somewhere..." Will answered.\
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\ "Umm, yeah. Anyway, now that I know his name and his ethnicity, are you going to tell me more about mystery boyfriend Alexei?" Grace asked, forgetting about where to go.\
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\ "Not boyfriend."\
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\ "Alright... lover." Grace teased. "Tell me about your lover."\
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\ "Fine, Grace... what do you want to know?"\
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\ Grace pulled another sucker from her coat pocket as she stepped down the busy street. "I don't know... Tell me what he looks like, where he works... something. Anything... I want sex stories. I need some arousal before I become fertile. If that's possible..."\
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\ Will laughed, "I don't know... he's tall and... Russian-looking."\
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\ Grace yanked the sucker out of her mouth to ask again, "Where's he work?"\
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\ "He doesn't really... work."\
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\ Grace snorted with laughter. "He doesn't have a job?"\
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\ "He just moved here!" Will insisted. "A few months ago, he's, errr.... a student."\
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\ "A student?" Grace was a little freaked out.\
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\ "He's not that young! He's... like, 21? 22?"\
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\ "And you're pushing, what, 23?" She joked.\
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\ "Don't laugh! Alexei's really mature. He's not as young as... as, ummm, as some other people."\
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\ Grace smiled. "Sounds great. A little Russian boy. Isn't that a song?"\
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\ "No... No, it's not." He shrugged. "Oh, yeah... And he's also kinda completely blind." \
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\ Grace couldn't help but laugh. She roared, "No wonder he's into you!"\
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\ "Haha. So original, Grace..." Will sighed.\
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\ "You know I'm kidding..." She grabbed the back of her head and tried not to laugh. "Where did you meet this kid?"\
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\ "He's not a kid, and, ummm..." Taking a few more steps forward, Will turned into a small coffee shop. "Here."\ }