Page 36 of Man Hands
Gently, I rub her back. She’s warm and solid undermypalm.
Happy to take over, my dickoffers.
Youwish,pal.
“My blog got a record number of hitstoday.”
“Really?” I laugh. “Of course it did. People are crazy. Your next blog post should be a spoof. Like, plate up two long slices of cake, one on top of the other. So it looks likethey’re…”
Brynn snorts and then giggles. I startlaughingtoo.
“Or a carrot rising from between two potatoes.” Shelaughs.
“Lots ofmelons!”
We lose it. And the sound of her laugh makes me hard. I pull her closer, my arm aroundherbody.
Mine!shouts my dick, like a crankytoddler.
She’s not, though. Reminding myself that our engagement is fake will be the hardest part. Okay, not the hardest part. That’s in my shorts. The greatestchallenge,then.
“Well, if we really tried this crazy scheme, how would this work?” she asks when we eventually stoplaughing.
“Publicist Becky will put out a press release. We’re very excited to announce our engagement, blah blah blah. Please respect ourprivacy.”
“As if,” Brynngrumbles.
“Yeah. I’m supposed to go to New York next week. You would come with me. We’ll let some nice photographer snap our picture eating at a trendyrestaurant.”
She sits up a little straighter. “Which trendyrestaurant?”
“You could pick,” I say quickly. “Some place classy. We rehabilitate our image over food I can’t pronounce.Whatever.”
She smiles at me. “Won’t they know it’s a scam, though? I justmetyou.”
“We have mutual friends,” I point out. “The story is that we’ve been secretly dating since I arrived inMichigan.”
“Whichwas…?”
“May.”
“Good to know.” She takes a deep breath and then sighs. “Okay.I’min.”
“Really?” I feel a lift in my heart that I’m going to have to examinelater.
“Yeah. It’s going to be weird, though.” She gives me a sidewaysglance.
“Sure. Ofcourse.”
“We shouldn’t have sex,” she says in a matter-of-fact tone. “That will just complicatethings.”
“Right,” I agreequickly.
My dick bursts intotears.
“It would be confusing,” she says slowly. Her gaze is locked on mine. “To go at it like rabbits when we knowit’s,uh…”
“Throbbing,” Ioffer.
