Page 9 of Use Me
“Clearly you need two.”
I laughed and nudged her shoulder with my hand. “Okay, Mom. You were right.”
Ashtyn let out a loud laugh. “She sounds smart.”
“I’ll make sure to tell her that Ashtyn Valor thinks she’s smart. She’ll die.”
“Oh please. You’re just asfamousas me. She won’t care.”
“You have to have more Emmys than I do.” There were various Emmys to be won for Ashtyn: Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story, Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story, Outstanding Feature Story, Outstanding Investigative Journalism, and Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting.
“We’re going to compare them?”
“Only one way to find out who’s better.”
She chuckled. “I have five.”
I smiled. “So do I.”
Her grin widened. “Then we’re in the same boat.”
We took a few more sips of our drinks and then I asked, “You want to talk about it?”
She scrunched her eyebrows. “You want to talk about why I was dumped?”
“Honestly, I’m curious as to why some fuck nut would ever do such a thing. You’re fucking gorgeous.”
Pink tinted her cheeks as she swirled her finger around the lip of her glass. “I think the wine is getting to my head because I could have sworn you were just hitting on me.”
I took a swallow of my drink. “What if I was?”
“Are you?”
I shrugged. “We’re both single, Ashtyn.”
“Newly single,” she clarified. “I’m not looking for anotherrealboyfriend.”
I smiled. “And I’m not looking for anotherrealgirlfriend.”
“How long were you with her?”
I sighed. I wasn’t necessarily heartbroken, but shit happens. “Two years.”
“And you want to jump into,” she waved her handed between us, “whatever this might be.”
“Let’s be real here. It’s different for girls than it is guys. We don’t think with the same head.”
“But I’m a girl, and I can’t just place a Band-Aid over my heart.”
I took another sip. “Why not? To get over someone you need to get under someone else, or whatever the saying is.”
“I’m not drunk enough for this conversation.” She laughed.
I smirked. “We can fix that.” I raised my arm again to flag over Tommy. “Two shots of Fireball.”
Ashtyn snorted. “Wow.”
“Look, Ashtyn. I’m just messing around with you, but if you did want to go back to your place, I’d be all for it.”
