Page 21 of Country Charm

I set the phone down next to me and take a long drink. Only a few minutes go by before I hear it ping through the music.

Cassidy: Like right this very minute or collectively this week?

Me: Right now.

Cassidy: How did you know I was reading?

Cassidy: Are you stalking me?

Cassidy: OMG. You’re totally a serial killer.

Me: Damn girl, you type fast. I just had a hunch. I live too far away and have too much to do in the morning to be stalkin’ a girl over an hr away.

Cassidy: Gone Girl.

Me: My ma liked that book a lot. She read it a few years ago.

Cassidy: It’s a good book. I’m rereading it, which is kind of a nasty habit of mine.

Me: Rereading a book?

Cassidy: Yeah, I annoy the girls because I’ll freak out about little things I missed during the first read.

Me: That’s cute.

Take my man card, I used the word cute, but it was appropriate.

Cassidy: Your ma likes to read?

Me: That’s an understatement. I’ve got a library in this house and as a kid growing up if I set foot in there without cleanin’ up first Ma would slap me up the head so hard I could see stars. Then she'd kick me out.

Cassidy: YOU

Cassidy: HAVE

Cassidy: A

Cassidy: LIBRARY?!

Me: Yes? But so do you?

Cassidy: Haven’t you heard?

Me: ???

Cassidy: Bitches love libraries.

Me: I’m not following.

Cassidy: Ever see Beauty and the Beast? Here, I’ll spoil it. He gets her a library and she falls for him.

Me: So, if I give you a library, you’ll fall for me? That’s why I’m gettin’ from all this.

Cassidy: Oh, I don’t fall for anyone, but I’ll give you a really great blowjob for a library.

Me: You already have one!

Cassidy: No, I have a ton of books that take up my living space. Not a dedicated space just for my books. There is a difference.

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