Together Alone || JJ Maybank

• «-we have nothing to lose by investigating, it will be fun.» she said.

JJ's face lit up like a child's in a toy store window. «Nothing to lose and fun?» he joked, a warm wrap of excitement in his voice. «Careful, Kookie - you have started talking like me, maybe I've gotten in a bit too deep inside of you, and now I'm stuck».

Avis nearly choked on her own saliva, practically drove an elbow into his ribs.
«Jesus Christ, JJ,» she complained, with an exaggerated gag. •

Avis and JJ, a newbie Kook and a Pogue, have an occasional sex relationship. For him - sex and mornings waking up with pillows thrown on his face. For her - sex and nights listening to his stuttering drunk speeches.
No rules, except one - The Rule: No love, no attachment. No Romeo and Juliet bullshit. No feeling - if not slight annoyance and hate.
But maybe, the word they are looking for doesn't begin with H.