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Chapter 76: Couch Surfing

"Do you need a ride to work today?" Aspen asks as she enters the small tiled kitchen.

"No, it's two blocks and I'm not due in for a while." I don't admit my secondary reason, a promise to myself that I would interrupt Aspen's life as little as possible while I'm here. The woman barely knows me, but she's opened her place without anything expected in return. It's more than I asked and I'm clueless as to how to repay her. The $500 in rent I'll force her to take doesn't feel like enough.

Aspen peeks her head into the living room where I sit on top of my makeshift bed now a couch again. When she looks back at me, her face is scrunched up on one side in question. "I hope the couch was okay. You folded it out, right?"

"Yeah, I picked it up already, but I slept great. Thank you."

I set my alarm for six to make sure the area lacked all evidence of my sleeping here before she left her room.

"Don't worry about it every day. No one is ever here." She points to the refrigerator. "Rule 4:
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