Page 52 of Friends with Benefits

Handcuffs.

Nipple clamps.

Rope.

Lube.

Dildos.

An entire—according to the packaging—all kink-clusivetoy box with a note that simply saysLove, Grandma…and it’s not until she reads that signature that she loses it. Laughs so hard tears stream down her face at the most Peppy Bloom gift. She took Evie to Romantix on her eighteenth birthday and helped her pick out her first vibrator, taught both her granddaughters that their pleasure mattered, wears a T-shirt that saysPro O.

Evie snaps a photo of the box and sends it to Gen.

Imogen Bloom

fucking GRANDMA

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!!!

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i’m

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she really said?? have you considered BONDAGE?

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i love her so much

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… also have you?

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with THEO?

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um

6:00P.M.

no

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but let’s unpack why your brain went there

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“So for dinner—”

Evie is so fixated on her phone, on her back-and-forth withGen, that she doesn’t even register Theo’s voice, its proximity to her, or that she’s not wearing pants.

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