Chapter 185
Chapter 185
I drag my hand down my face and force myself to look at Kent. He’s looking right at me, of course, from his place outside the room. Looking at me as I sit in the clothes he sent, having a movie night with his son.
“Is it a surprise?” Daniel asks, working hard to pull Kent’s attention back to him. It doesn’t work. Kent keeps his eyes fixed on me. “I’m just having a nice evening in with my fiancé, after all,” Daniel continues. “What’s so surprising about that.”
Kent ignores his son. I shift uncomfortably under his gaze, looking down at the popcorn in my lap. I look up when I hear Kent speak again.
“Well,” he says, his voice conclusive. “I wouldn’t want to interrupt. You two have fun.” He pauses, looking me straight in the eye for a good ten seconds before turning slowly and striding away, perfectly in control. Daniel rudely slams the door after him.
“Daniel,” I sigh. “Do you have to be such a dick?”
“He’s being a dick, Fay!” Daniel explodes, throwing his hands in the air. “What he’s doing to you – how he’s treating you! I’m saving you from that!”
“Daniel,” I hesitate, looking at him with sorrow on my face. “Did
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He goes still, staring at me with his mouth open. I trace the design
on my duvet, awkward.
“Seriously?” Daniel breathes. “He got to you too?”
Nook up at him, a little rueful. He did.
“Can we just…enjoy the night?” I sigh, gesturing towards the
empty side of the bed. “You scared him away – isn’t that what you
wanted?”
Daniel sighs too, putting his forehead in his hand and closing his eyes to think it through.
“Just come watch the movie with me” I plead softly. It breaks my heart to see my friend so upset, even though…well, even though I know that this isn’t going to end well for us. That if I start sleeping with his dad, things are forever going to be changed between
Daniel and me..
And suddenly I decide that what I actually want – really – is one last real night with my best friend. While he’s my best friend.
Daniel nods then, perhaps coming to the same conclusion, and
climbs back into the bed with me. I rest my head on his shoulder
and he gives me a chaste little kiss on the forehead, both of us apparently deciding not to talk about it. Perhaps, in this case,
silence is best.
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We finish Clueless, and a couple more movies, before I eventually drift off to sleep with my head still on my friend’s shoulder.
But I swear, my last waking thought is to wonder what the hell would have happened, really, if I made Daniel go away. And called Kent back.
And let him peel this little fur robe from my shoulders and drop it to the floor.
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