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Show 202 give you a back rub as long as I'm at it." "Actually I'm in pretty good shape right now," he said. "Over," she said. With his s h i r t t a i l out and his shoes o f f he f e l t seedy, but i t would be an affectation to resist so he struggled onto an elbow and turned over, feeling his pantlegs climb, over his socks. He squirmed until his edges were comfortable against the cushions, then settled his cheek onto a forearm and looked bleakly across the room toward the curtained front window while Gloriana set to work. "We haven't been roomies a l l that long, r e a l l y , " she said, squeezing and releasing the ridge of his trapezius on either side of his neck. Goose pimples raced to his scalp. "Just long enough to know we probably wouldn't want to do this permanently. Have you two been l i v i n g together long?" "Few months," he mumbled into his arm. "Because, oh I don't know. We l i ke each other all r i g h t , " she went on, the heels of her hands pressing small wavelets of euphoria into his infraspinatus and teres major. "But i f we didn't l i v e together we probably wouldn't even be friends. We don't have a l l that much in common. We l i k e different people and go different places. That's a l l right for a while but pretty soon one of you starts conforming to the other just to keep peace in the family, and then each of you thinks the other is a p i l l . " She laughed. Her fingers meantime found magic buttons hidden in his rhomboideus minor and major. He could scarcely breathe for pleasure. She was going to reach his latissimus dorsi soon and he was going to f a l l apart. "I guess i t sounds like we've had another f i g h t . Actually we haven't. I t ' s just l i k e this all the time now. Did anyone ever t e l l you you were awfully bony?" He groaned as the nerves radiating from his spine l i t up l i k e filaments. |