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Yusei's Paintings: Summary

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Yusei tells her she looks like a canvas. He's a strange guy. Looks like a fucking mess and he's sitting in a goddamned Starbucks with a loud, blond man. He tells her he likes the black rose on her forearm.

She glances at his hands where it says You can't break me and she wonders what kind of past is haunting him.

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The second time, she runs into Yusei, it's on the street and two weeks later. She only recognizes him due to the colorful, artistic skin he has, like her.

And when they run into each other - they run into each other. Aki lands on her rear and he stumbles back a pace or so. She starts to actually cuss him out, but then he's offering a hand to pick her up and she sees those cursive, black words there, and wants to smack herself. …show more content…

He lets her move into own apartment. He lives with his roommate, Crow, someone who he's apparently known on and off since they were children. Crow and Yusei carry her boxes and bags out of Divine's condo, loading up their pickup truck and stuffing her in the middle of the font seats before Divine can come back and catch them. He tries to tack her down, but they do a good job of protecting her. It's nice, Aki thinks, that they bother.

They're a funny bunch. They look like the punching bags subjected of a tattoo artist in the ghetto. The first time she meets Crow, the first thing she notices other than his bright hair is the small, gold lettering above his eyebrow that reads I can fly higher than you. He's a funny guy, and she immediately likes him.

It's not the most intelligent of ideas. Leaving the domain of a dangerous man to move into the shared apartment of two other men who've been to jail. But both were there for stealing, so it's not like they murdered anyone. They stole her already, from Divine. What worse can they do?

She gets in the swing of things. Their friend Jack comes over three times a week (she recognizes him as the loud, blonde one from the coffee shop). They're friends with their neighbor, a sweet man named Bruno who lives with his

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