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"Good morning…"
I woke up later than Panam, and she was already busy making a simple breakfast in my kitchen. So, getting out of bed, I took a deep, pleasurable breath of the coffee and bacon and eggs. This was one of the perks of being a solo, since regular people couldn't afford real food, limiting themselves to food from stalls, vending machines, or nutritional bars.
"…It smells good…"
I walked up to Panam and took another sniff. I didn't expect her to put down her spatula and, turning around, wrap her arms around my waist.
"You know, last night, when I accepted your invitation, I was planning a little test…"
The smile on Panam's lips was very soft and different, not like the way she usually smiled at me.
"…and I was deliberately trying to provoke you. If you had given in, despite my 'unwillingness' which I only expressed verbally, we would have had passionate sex, and then I would have simply disappeared from your life."
I raised an eyebrow in question, but when Panam came a little closer and kissed me gently, I was completely surprised.
"But if you took my words to heart and held back no matter what, I would give you a chance. A chance to become something more to me than just a partner."
Another gentle kiss.
"So that means you give me the green light to…"
A persistent knock came from the apartment door, but I decided to ignore it and continued to look intently into Panam's eyes.
"…to court you, to get a little handsy, and to get out of line?"
"Yeah…"
Panam smirked and leaned in to kiss me again, just as the knocking at the door started once more.
"Alright, go open the door. I'll finish breakfast…"
I reluctantly let go of Panam, whom I had already hugged, and went to the door, where I found, who else, but Becca.
"Hey, Rebecca…"
"I told you already, Dev. Just call me Becca. And for you, we could even come up with something cute to highlight our relationship…"
"Really?"
"Yeah!"
Hope appeared in the eyes of the girl who didn't look her age.
"Then how about Freeloader?"
"Hey!"
"Well, you're here again because your brother spent all his eddies on chrome again, right?"
"Yeah…"
She lowered her gaze.
"And, as always, you want me to give you some food?"
"Yeah…"
I sighed.
"Alright, wait here. I'll go buy you a couple of burritos from the machine… You want the mega-spicy ones, as usual?"
"Yeah, and you can get the vegan ones for my moron brother."
I smirked. In the time I'd lived next to this weapon-loving maniac, I had learned that her brother hated anything without meat. The only thing he hated more was something super spicy. So Becca used this as a way to get back at him.
"Hold on, what's that I smell? Something smells delicious."
"My girlfriend's making breakfast…"
"Making?"
Becca latched on to the word, her eyes wide with surprise and disbelief.
"You said making? Not reheating? Actually making it? And your girlfriend, too?"
"Yeah, his girlfriend…"
Panam answered, appearing behind my shoulder and giving Becca a slightly mocking but still friendly look. After all, she knew Becca visited me too often and made it very clear she wanted to have sex with me.
Despite her petite size, Becca was quite attractive, and Panam always wondered if I had managed to resist her, given my neighbor's persistence.
"Oh, damn it all…"
Becca kicked the doorframe.
"Is it because of my height, huh?"
She looked at me, pouting slightly.
"More because of your excessive persistence. And also because I don't want to do business with your boss. I didn't like him when I saw him. Too chromed out; it's dangerous to deal with someone like that. He could snap at any moment…"
"Are you being serious?"
"Yeah…"
"And what about you?"
She looked me over suspiciously.
"A standard set of optics and a deck, and also a Sandevistan that I installed out of foolishness. I don't have anything else, although lately I've been thinking about getting a monowire or mantis blades… I'm managing without them for now, though."
"Wanna have breakfast with us?"
"Huh?"
Becca looked at Panam in surprise, but I had expected something like this from her and just stepped aside a little, letting the small girl into the apartment.
"Um… yeah… thanks for the offer…"
It was the first time I had ever seen her so flustered.
She walked into the apartment, and the door closed with a quiet hiss. We then sat down at the large table, where Panam began to serve a simple but hearty breakfast.
"Is this… real food?"
"Yeah…"
I shrugged.
"Panam and I are solos, and we work as a team… And for a top fixer in the city, at that…"
"And? I'm a solo, too… We have a good crew, and we often even get jobs from Rogue, but real food…"
Becca greedily inhaled the smell of the eggs.
"…I can't afford that…"
"Well, you often complain about your chromed-out brother. He probably 'eats up' the lion's share of the profit. What am I saying, the lion's share? Considering you don't even have money for burritos…"
"And David often gets bonuses from Regina, too."
"Bonuses?"
"Yeah, Regina generally prefers quiet work. You come in, get out, and no one around knows what happened. And David works exactly like that. Quietly, calmly. You've heard of Ghost, right?"
Becca nodded, her gaze shifting to me in surprise.
"Wait… you're Ghost?!"
"Uh-huh…"
I nodded and started cutting my egg and bacon with a knife.
"…and as Panam said, Regina really appreciates that I don't make any extra noise on my jobs. And with Panam joining my crew, I've become quite mobile, so sometimes we manage to complete three jobs a day."
"Three?!"
"Yeah, what about it?"
I looked at Becca in surprise.
"When do you guys rest?!"
"Weekends, and we don't work like that every time… If we feel like we're getting tired, we take a day or two off."
"Uh-huh. More like if David feels tired, since I'm usually not. And for a break, we sometimes take jobs from another fixer for package delivery. There are shootouts, of course, but not often, so…"
Panam shrugged.
We had already eaten half our portions when Becca took her first bite and closed her eyes in delight.
"This is delicious… those vending machine burritos don't even compare to this food of the gods…"
"Thanks for the compliment…"
Panam smirked.
"…but David's cooking is better."
"He cooks, too?!"
"Yeah."
"Listen…"
Becca's gaze shifted from me to Panam, and while her look at me was one of awe, her look at my girlfriend was pleading.
"Do you guys want a little doggy, or maybe a kitten to take home?"
"Um…"
Panam gave Becca a look of immense doubt about her mental faculties, then looked at me.
"Knowing her…"
I sighed heavily.
"…she's being completely serious. And she'll even act like a cat or a dog."
Meow! Woof!
In confirmation of my words, Becca first mimicked a kitten, even putting her hands up like paws in front of her, and then mimicked a doggy.
I rubbed the bridge of my nose.
"She's just not taking one little detail into account…"
"And what detail am I not taking into account?"
"Good owners don't feed dogs and cats from their own table. At least not all the time. It's bad for the pets' health. Most of the time, they get a bowl that's put somewhere near the door, and they buy special pet food."
Cough…
Becca grabbed her chest on the right side.
"…Right in the heart!"
"The heart's on the left…"
Seeing me confirm Panam's words with a nod, Becca grabbed her left breast.
"And not in the tits, but under it."
This time, Panam nodded to confirm my words. And seeing this, Becca pouted.
"You're meanies!"
"You just shouldn't gawk at other people's pies."
Panam smirked at Becca, who was happily finishing her breakfast, giving us feigned offended looks.
"Alright, I get it, you're possessive…"
"Not really…"
Panam shrugged.
"…I just don't know you at all, and sharing my boyfriend…"
She looked at Becca intently.
"…for that, there have to be some very good reasons."
I shook my head.
"What a crazy city. I just got a girl to agree to be my lady, and she's already considering sharing me with another girl…"
"Oh, come on…"
Becca waved her hand.
"…you guys are all perverts. Just tell you that you can have several girls instead of one, and you immediately start thinking with your Mr. Wiener."
I shuddered.
"You know, Becca, if I ever decide to install chrome in place of my cock, it definitely won't be a Mr. Wiener. Because crap like that is…"
I shook my head.
"After that, you'd have to cut everything off and hope you could install some other chrome."
"If you put chrome there, I'm leaving you…"
"What?"
Becca looked at Panam, who had said something like that and was clearly not joking.
"It's simple. I would have to install sex chrome myself, and I don't want to become a sex doll. So there would only be one choice, and that would be to break up."
"Don't worry, for now, I'm not even thinking about installing that kind of chrome."
Panam nodded with satisfaction.
Uff… "That was so delicious…"
Becca leaned back on the couch.
"…What are your plans for today?"
"Well…"
I shrugged.
"…I would love to go on a date with Panam, of course, but I promised Regina I'd contact her at ten o'clock. So we'll probably do one or two jobs from our fixer, and then we'll settle down here in front of the TV and watch a movie with another parody of Smüshla Tüllis."
"Uh-huh…"
Panam stretched in the chair.
"…And you?"
"Me?"
She looked from me to Panam and back again.
"I need to feed my degenerate brother and call a couple of fixers; maybe someone will have a job…"
"Why the doubt?"
"Well, there's always work for the crew, but for me specifically…"
Becca shook her head.
"…it comes down to my own hang-ups, which make it so I can't do every job."
"Hang-ups?"
Panam was curious.
"She probably just doesn't know how to work quietly, so if she gets sent out, it's only on loud jobs. And those don't really appeal to really good fixers. After jobs like that, you have to cover your tracks so the corpos don't get on your trail…"
"Uh-huh… alright, I'm going…"
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