Page 43 of Change My Mind
We live together
I could see her returning eye roll.
You’re both adults, I think you can be mature about this and just carry on as normal
Oh yeah? You have a lot of history of living with someone you’ve had mind-blowing sex with and pretending it never happened?
I never said you had to pretend that it didn’t happen. But you can both do that little thing called ‘have a conversation’ with each other which would probably help avoid making things awkward.
A pause.
Or you could move back in with Mama and Papa
You have a spare room don’t you?
Her reply came quicker than I thought possible. Even for Rachel.
Not for you I don’t
But seriously, just talk to him. It’s as weird as you make it and it really doesn’t have to be weird. Sex is perfectly normal and healthy.
Yeah, I know. I will talk to him
So blondie’s got good thighs then?
We are done here, Adrienne
I laughed quietly.
I’m taking that as a yes, you know!
I heard Eli’s door creak open before another door closed, and then the shower started running. I felt weirdly compelled to follow the sound. To climb into the shower behind him and wash his beautiful body clean. But doing that would lead to doing something else, and it wouldn’t be talking.
And that wouldn’t be ‘just once’.
I was going to take Rachel’s advice and talk to Eli. She wasn’t wrong. We were both adults who had a mutual understanding before we had sex. We could move past this.
We just had to talk to each other.
I’d do it tomorrow.
Twenty-Seven
ADDIE
“Have you heard about Rachel?” Clara asked as she sat down at our table.
“What about her?” I slipped my bookmark into my book before closing it. Last I checked, Rachel had nothing interesting to report since she got herself off against a stranger’s leg before promptly finding out it was her friend’s brother.
Clara smiled gleefully. It was the smile she only broke out when she got to be the one to dish inner circle gossip. I hadn’t seen it in person in years.
“Well, she has found herself a fake boyfriend.”
What?
“Who?”
“This is the funniest part.” I already knew who she was going to say before she said it. “It’s Jesse’s younger brother.”
