Page 66 of On My Side
“Right, right, of course,” I say. “How silly of me.”
She condescendingly pats me on the head and reaches into the bowl for a pack of Reese’s Cups. I try to pull the bowl away, but alas, I am too slow.
“What happened to not trick-or-treating, missy?” I tease as she rips open the packaging.
“I didn’t say trick-or-treat, did I?” she counters before shoving the entire peanut butter cup in her mouth.
“Are you biking to the party?” I ask as she skips down the steps.
“No. I’d have to wear a helmet and my hair looks too good,” she mumbles through the chocolate. “It’s a few blocks over on Jefferson.”
“Sounds good. Remember to text me when you get there with the address and parents’ names, please. And be home by eleven, but I want a text at ten. And donotturn off your location.”
“Got it! Bye! Don’t betooembarrassing!”
I wave her off and pull out my phone to open my e-reader app. I’ve been reading for an hour, with zero trick-or-treaters, when I’m surprised by the first text I’ve received from Ren since our makeout session a few nights ago.
Yep, this man kisses me like I’m the air he needs to breathe, gives me a hickey, pirouettes off the porch, and doesn’t text me for multiple days.
Granted I didn’t text him, either, but we still kept our routine of me joining him with coffee for his cooldown mile.
It’s been… different. I’d been hoping he’d pull me into the wooded area at the bluffs where people sneak away to smoke and drink and ravish me for real, but alas. We don’t have a secret tryst—instead, we walk and drink coffee and make useless small talk.
Ren
taking a page out of your playbook!
I grin like a fool at the picture of his TV with theGilmore Girlslogo on it. My heart does a couple, flips too.
Audrey
i'm so proud.
Ren
what are you and piper doing tonight?
Audrey
ugh, my way too cool for me daughter is at her very first high school party while her loser mom sits on the porch with an almost full bowl of candy and no trick-or-treaters in the past hour.
Ren
ouch.
Audrey
yeah, your night sounds way more fun. I might give up and call it a night.
Ren
i’m sorry. You can come over and join me, if you want.
My belly clenches with a myriad of feelings—desire, anxiety. After all, this is the man who got me off while fully dressed. Also the man who released a mask kink audio this morning.
Audrey
thanks for the invite, but i told piper i’d be home, and i want her to know where i am.
