Infinite Rebate System: Beautiful Women And Endless Returns

Amira looked up at him with the glasses and the stubborn honesty and the expression of someone who had said the thing and was now waiting to see what the world did with it.

"I know," he said.

She let out a breath that was half frustration, half something else entirely.

"Of course you do," she said.

"Amira," he said.

"Xavier."

"I told you from the beginning," he said. "Someone worth investing in."

She looked at him.

"That’s the closest you’re going to get to saying it back isn’t it," she said.

"For now," he said.

She shook her head. Almost smiled. The real one.

"For now," she repeated. Like she’d decided that was enough.

He checked the gauge.

Amira — 100%

Already at the top, he thought. Can’t go higher.

But something about this moment sits differently from a number on a screen.

He filed that thought away separately from everything else.

Xavier crossed the distance between them in two steps.

She looked up at him.

He drew her closer and kissed her.

She didn’t pull back. Didn’t hesitate. Just kissed him back with the same directness she brought to everything. No performance, no calculation, just Amira being exactly what she was.

When they broke apart she looked at him with her glasses slightly askew from it.

She reached up and straightened them.

"Okay," she said quietly.

"Okay," he said.

She almost smiled. Sat back down on the edge of the bed like nothing seismic had just happened.

Picked up her tablet.

"Did you order yet," she said.

Xavier looked at her for a moment.

"Are you hungry," he asked?.

She blinked. "You’re asking me if I’m hungry?..."

"Yes," he said. "I’m going to order food. Are you staying."

She looked at him for one more moment.

Then picked up her bag from the chair and set it back down. The gesture of someone who had decided they weren’t going anywhere.

"Order something good," she said. And sat back down on the edge of the bed.

Xavier picked up his phone.

In love with me, he thought, opening the delivery app. She said it like it was the most natural thing in the world.

Maybe it is.

He ordered food and sat back at his desk and looked at her across the room. Glasses on, sitting cross legged now, already pulling out her tablet to review something because Amira could not exist in a space without being productive in it.

Girlfriend or not, he thought. Already in the bag.

Has been for a while.

He almost smiled and picked up his phone.

One thing still on the list, he thought.

Sarah Torres.

But tonight — just this.

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Sarah called on a Friday afternoon.

Not a message. A call. Direct the way she’d been getting recently.

Xavier answered on the second ring.

"Are you free Sunday," she asked.

"Depends," he said.

"On what."

"On what Sunday involves," he said.

A pause. "I want to show you something," she said. "Not a showcase. Not a performance. Just something I want you to see." Another pause smaller than the first. "It matters to me that you see it."

Xavier looked around.

It matters to me that you see it, he thought. She said that without dressing it up. No performance attached to it. Just the plain thing.

89% favorability, he thought. Getting very close.

"Sunday," he said. "Where."

She gave him an address on the north side of Kenvale. A residential area he didn’t immediately recognise.

"11AM," she said.

"I’ll be there," he said.

She hung up without the usual back and forth.

Interesting, he thought. She called with a purpose and executed it and got off the phone. He set his phone down. She’s been learning something from these interactions.

Dangerous.

Sunday arrived clear and cool.

Xavier dressed without overthinking it. Dark trousers, a clean grey shirt, the white sneakers. Ordered a premium Uber at 10:40AM and watched the city move past the window on the way north.

The address turned out to be a community arts centre tucked between two residential blocks. A modest building, nothing announcing itself from the outside. A small garden area at the front with a noticeboard covered in event flyers.

Sarah was waiting outside.

Not dressed up. Jeans, a simple top, hair loose. The version of her that existed when nobody was watching or when she’d decided the person watching didn’t require a performance.

She looked up when the Uber pulled in.

"You came," she said when he reached her.

"I said I would," he said.

She looked at him for a moment. Then turned toward the building.

"Come on," she said.

Inside the centre a group of maybe twenty children between the ages of eight and fourteen were arranged in a loose semicircle in a large open room. Instruments everywhere. Keyboards, guitars, a drum kit in the corner. A woman in her fifties was at the front working through something with two of the younger ones.

Sarah stopped at the door.

"I’ve been volunteering here since I was fifteen," she said quietly. "Every Sunday when I’m in Kenvale. I teach the older ones vocal technique. Basic stuff. Breathing, projection, how to find their range." She looked at the room. "Nobody knows I do this. It’s not on my Arts faculty profile. It’s not on my Instagram." She paused. "You’re the first person I’ve brought here."

Xavier looked at the room. At the children. At the woman at the front who had glanced up when they entered and nodded at Sarah with the familiarity of someone who had seen her walk through that door every week for years.

She brought me here, he thought. The thing she keeps completely separate from everything else she is. The thing with no audience.

She chose to give it one.

Me.

"Why," he said, not that it mattered.

She looked at him sideways. "Because you told me I perform because I need people to see me," she said. "And you were right. But this..." she gestured at the room "...This I do when nobody is watching. And I wanted you to know that version exists too."

Xavier said nothing for a moment.

She’s showing me something real, he thought. Not the stage version. Not the Instagram version. Not the girl who scanned the crowd to check if they were seeing her. He looked at her profile. Something underneath all of that.

Interesting.

"Go teach," he said.

She blinked. "What."

"You came to teach," he said. "Go teach. I’ll watch."

She looked at him for a moment. Then something settled in her expression. The particular settling of someone who had been prepared for a bigger reaction and received a simpler one and found the simpler one was actually better.

She turned and walked into the room.

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