32 - It Takes Two

Fletch and I had been back at dad’s for a couple days and I was already dying to leave again. I didn’t say anything to Fletch about Corey, or where I actually went that day. Erik came in today and that made it tolerable but he was incredibly snippy with mom.

Fletch and I were talking about going back a week earlier, and the thought of a week alone with him sounded like heaven, and the distraction I needed. I couldn’t focus, I just pictured Corey at a computer, stealing all of my intellectual property. I thought about how he said I was one of six people; me, Noora, Dr. Karlsson and an older man in China were among the top math people in the world I knew of, who else was there? Was he just pulling a number out of his ass? Fuck…

I just needed a week alone in a room with my boyfriend screwing my brains out, or I was going to lose it. That