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Isn’t that true for everybody?
To:Kevin Kisson
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At the risk of sounding incredibly self-absorbed, I think for me more than for the average person.
To:Elle Rex
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Ah. I still want to know.
To:Kevin Kisson
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Maybe one day. I really like talking to you, and it feels like you like talking to me, and I don’t want that to change.
To:Kevin Kisson
RE:Not Work Thread
I’m sorry, I think that came across super intense. You probably were just going along with the “you have no idea” joke, and I should’ve responded in kind. I don’t know why I’m in this mood. Can we just ignore this?
It’s the first time she’s shut him down like this. He brushes his hair off his forehead, unsure of how to handle it. Maybe they haven’t gotten as close as he’d thought. Maybe it bothers her how often he messages—he initiates emailing most nights. But he can’t bring himself to pretend that he doesn’t want to know her, even if she doesn’t want the same.
To:Elle Rex
RE:Not Work Thread
I wasn’t just going along with the joke. I meant it. But we can ignore it if you want.
To:Kevin Kisson
RE:Not Work Thread
Thank you. Why don’t you tell me about your day?
To:Elle Rex
RE:Not Work Thread
The usual. Clients, Mia, Connect Four, family dinner. How was yours?
To:Kevin Kisson
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The usual. Books, too much coffee, coworker who wants to use my personal life as entertainment, TV with my roommate, checking my phone for new emails.
I meant it when I said maybe one day, just so you know.
CHAPTER EIGHT
The episode goes live on Wednesday as planned, and the stats look the same as always for the first hour, after which Yael forces herself to stop checking. By the time she’s done at Kennedy for the day, there are eleven comments on the Instagram post she scheduled to go out simultaneously with the upload. To her relief, all of them are complimentary.
