Page 20 of Simply Irresistible

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Melanie: Are you sure I can’t bring something to your sister’s house?

Melanie: Dessert or something?

Tyler: No.

Melanie: I can bake something. I make really great oatmeal cookies.

Tyler: Oatmeal doesn’t belong in cookies.

Melanie: Excuse me?

Tyler: Oatmeal cookies would be lovely, but you don’t have an oven.

Melanie: I can use the communal kitchen.

Tyler: Do you have cookie sheets?

Melanie: Well, no. But I have aluminum foil and I can wrap the communal cookie sheet in that.

Tyler: …

Melanie: Don’t you dot me.

Tyler: You don’t get to have all the fun.

Tyler: …

Tyler: …

Tyler: …

Melanie: That’s not the way this works. That’s not the way any of this works.

Melanie: …

Tyler: I’ll see you in 2 hours. Just settle down. Hannah is going to love you. You don’t have to be or bring anything but yourself.

Melanie: *swoon*

Tyler: *brushes off shoulders* My work here is done.

Melanie: *rolls eyes* I love how modest you are.

Tyler: It’s my best quality.

Melanie: I wouldn’t say that.

Tyler: What?

Melanie: I’ll see you at 5!

Tyler: smh

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Melanie

“I’msosorry, Tyler. I feel awful.”

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