Page 20 of What I Like About You

7:00 PM

Yeah! Seems cool. Kind of quiet, but we were in a library. I’m mostly basing my assessment off meeting her in the YA section.

7:00 PM

You know, where the cool kids hang.

7:01 PM

exactly what I was thinking.

7:01 PM

It was nice, meeting someone new under the age of 55. Most people come here for the senior life.

7:02 PM

they do NOT

7:02 PM

Swear to God.

7:03 PM

But anyways, meeting her got me thinking. Like, it’ll be cool when we meet.

7:03 PM

My pulse quickens. How would he feel if he knew we already had?

i’m a terribly awkward human

7:03 PM

I mean … mood?

7:04 PM

fair enough.

7:04 PM

but new girl is probably most definitely cooler than me.

7:05 PM

Eh, probably.

7:08 PM

He doesn’t say anything else, but I can feel his disappointment in the non-immediate response.

A knock on the door makes me jump.

“It’s me,” Ollie says and he comes into the room, Scout on his heels. She jumps on the bed and makes herself comfortable between my crisscrossed legs. Ollie takes a seat on the end, fists curled at his sides.

“You should apologize to Gramps,” he says.

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