“I hope you’re not afraid to use it,” Simon countered, making it clear that the idea of Aaron’s dirty mind was not a problem in the slightest. Sex stories.” He tapped the front of his forehead. “Sex-adjacent?” Simon tilted his head with the question, clearly trying to figure out what he was talking about. “You might have noticed that, ahh, I have a tendency to, umm, you know, sort of, redirect conversations.” “Yeah, that’s probably something you should know about me,” Aaron admitted, grimacing a little. “What, like the Joker?” Aaron asked, thinking of the gruesome, stretched smile of Batman’s foe. “In a good way, right? Not in a creepy way?” Simon asked with mock fear on his face, and joined Aaron when he began laughing. Which was surprising, considering that he was usually all about the overshare. “I was thinking about your smile,” he offered his date, wanting to give the man the truth but maybe not the whole truth. No problem.” He shrugged, feeling like his arms were no longer under his control. “Was it because I said I was glad you were nervous? I only said that because I am too, and didn’t want to be all nervy alone.” The contact was literally electric, a shock jolting the visual clear, and Aaron nodded fervently. “Are you okay?” Simon asked, reaching over the table and resting a hand on Aaron’s.
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Read about the key themes of Oliver Twist Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. |