Anna turns a two of whoa

“That is ridiculous. What are you playing at?” Anna may be distracted from her pleading but that has made her reminded that she is riding Josh’s knee.

“Look, it’s true. Just make a change, and you see, but, seriously keep it simple.” Josh slapped his hand over his mouth seeing that pleased look she had had when he told her to say what she needed to be happy. “Sorry, that’s not an order. Fuck!? How do you deal with that everyday?”

Anna clears her throat finally realizing she was soaking his knee, and reasserting her normal demeanor. “I have to keep constant vigilance. I have to just hold back everything, no reactions. I don’t let myself move until I sure what I’m doing and why.”

“Sounds exhausting.”

“It is.”

“I always thought you were just really focused on your women’s rights work, well, focused and frustrated.”

“Oh, that plays its part.” She looks down at Josh’s phone in his hands. “Something simple?”

“Yeah, be careful but keep it to something simple like if you wrote it was a rule you have no fetishes it might turn you into a rock or nearly every girl might be named with your name so they do have a fetish.”

Anna takes a moment think before she types out a rule. Josh took comfort that she was wary enough to give it thought. More than he had.

• starting now **** Breed smell roses when a man named Joshua West lies to them, but 24 hours from now they no longer smell roses when a man named Joshua West lies to them.

Josh was impressed. There were only a few changes that came with her changes involving synesthesia, and brain tumor that would be destroyed by her immune system. She agreed.

“Well, now lie to me, tell me again how you don’t want to be my master.”

“Well, now, I don’t think I did say I didn’t want to be your master.”

Anna cocked an eyebrow.

“Fine. I don’t want to buy you.”

“Holy shit! I smell them!” She glared at Josh. “You,” she grabbed a couch cushion, “fucking!” She hit him with cushion. “Asshole!” Josh resisted the urge to block the blows, “You,”Anna started hitting him after each word, “made a rule to turn your friend into a neurotic nympho!?”

Josh tried to talk but Anna wasn’t allowing it. So when she had worn herself out, Josh tried again. “I didn’t make you a neurotic nympho.”

She hit him again, but then said, “huh? No roses.”

“Yeah no roses. I made a bunch of stupid fetish rules tied to race, it changed not only the present but the past. I knew an Anna before the changes, but she was an Anna Huang, and she was Chinese or mostly Chinese. I knew her since forever but after changes she moved away during high school.

“So, if you hadn’t changed things I’d have never been born.”

Josh started to reassure her, but hearing her he realized she hadn’t asked a question, and she’d know if he tried to lie.

“I don’t know what to say, Anna.”

“No roses…”

“Yeah.”

“Fuck, I could make it so people never conceived of **** Breeds. Woosh no more **** trade, no **** camps, and all it would cost is the genocide of everyone of us.”

They sat in silence for a while.

After some of the longest minutes of either of their lives, Anna broke the silence. “You are a Scorpio, born on the 17th right?”

“Umm… yeah.” Josh looked over at his phone as she was typing. “What are you doing?”

“I’m putting in a little protection, don’t even think of trying to stop me, you owe me this much.” Anna poked him in the chest and pushed him backward.