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Dear Bea,
I’ve started this letter four times now. The first three I threw into the bin. You would have appreciated that, I think, the decisiveness of it. You always said I had no follow-through. Maybe you were right about most things, but not that one.
I don’t know if you’ll read this. I don’t know if any of them reach you, or if they stack up somewhere in a flat in London with the rest of the post you don’t open. I’ve thought about that image quite a lot, actually: my letters in a pile with the electricity bill. The idea bothers me so much.OR: Rio de Janeiro, 1961. Ava Silva arrives from Portugal with a suitcase, a very vague plan, waiting for her life to begin. She finds it, unexpectedly, in the form of a serious British student working the other end of a bakery counter.
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Ava’s mouth drops open. “Me? I’d have to move out? No way. I’m basically built into the woodwork at this point.” She jabs a finger at Bea. “You jump, I jump. What’s that one line you like, from Ruby?”
“Ruth,” Bea corrects quietly. “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you,” she quotes. “Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay.”
Ava nods with an air of finality. “You’re my forever-roomate, Beatrice. Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay.”
Bea smiles, eyes on the floor for a moment before they meet Ava’s. “Okay. I suppose I can live with that.”
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18 Mar 2026
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Unbound for a second, Beatrice lifts her hand back up. There’s no dirt, no excuse, but she palms Ava’s face again, just to feel it, just for that special close lipped smile that graces Ava’s face again, just for her to sigh.
She removes it quickly—not quickly enough, too quickly—catching Ava’s eyes when they open again.
“Now,” Beatrice says, voice soft and serious. “Let’s try again.”
Ava nods, the halo glows, her feet leave the ground, and she doubles her time.
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Beatrice realizes that her touch helps Ava with her training, and, well, things escalate.
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Beatrice had never thought too hard about relationships. But her junior year at Arq Tech University would force Beatrice to consider what she really wanted. Mostly, definitely, completely because of the arrival of the most stunning girl she'd ever seen.
Ava was excited for the future, now with so many options open to her for exploration. She was trying not to take things too seriously, just go with the flow, enjoy her time in college. This is the best time of your life, or so she'd been told.
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Beatrice reaches out and taps Ava’s notebook. “Finish your work.”
”Yes, ma’am.” Ava tries to sand the words down with humor, smooth them into an insignificant bump in their usual conversation, but her voice is too throaty, even to her own ears.
She feels Beatrice’s eyes linger on her for long, long afterwards.
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Ava hires Beatrice as her tutor. Things go swimmingly.
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