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21. The word 'love'
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2021-03-07 00:10:06Black. Black is all I could see. His living room itself is as large as my house. The modular U-shaped sofa has somewhat looked like a blend of gray and cement color. The paint of the wall has the same mixture but with high contrast. The ceiling is plain and flat with absolutely zero curves or designs that a typical modernistic architecture has. The table placed at the sofa is black too. It is round, like really round and for a second I thought it was floating until I get a glimpse at its base. No, it's not. "Have a seat." He says and disappeared somewhere I am assuming kitchen, precisely a modern kitchen which is full of nothing but black and maybe Scotch or whiskey. I don't know why. But the thought that this man has a fridge full of fruits and vegetables made me laugh like an idiot.
"What's so funny?" I heard him say. Oh! He came back without his suit and in his very sexy black shirt. Since when did I start to mention a shirt as sexy? And in his hands,
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