CHAPTER EIGHTY - ONE
Author: Michelle Raphael
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"I have never been scared of girls; I just wasn't good at talking to them, maybe because they weren't what I wanted.

Everyone was busy; Calvin and Keren were having a serious conversation, and Henry was on the phone with Ethan Nathan. So they just let themselves go.

Darwin decided to tell Vivian about one girl who was forcing herself on him in college.

"Sis, let me tell you of a girl I knew in college; she was always forcing herself on me.

Vivian looked at him with a "Are you serious?" expression on her face and decided to pay close attention to listen to his story.

"All ears, Darwin."

"There was this girl in my department; her name is Emily. She's been watching me for a while, and I didn't know. So on the day we had our departmental class, the lecturer asked her to define what he wrote on the marker board, and she wasn't able to. He then asked me, and I answered it perfectly. During the whole class, she continually kept winking her eye at me; I just played neutral, like nothing was g
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