Just Date and See by Portia MacIntosh

Author:Portia MacIntosh [MacIntosh, Portia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

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The good news is that things between me, Rocco, Leila and Tobias are back to being friends again. The old gang (from, you know, like three days ago) is back together again.

What is potentially the bad news, but is something I am also going to file under good news anyway, is that Leila and Tobias have joined us for our post-speed dating drink. It’s bad because obviously I want to be alone with Rocco – I want it to be just us, to shut out the rest of the world while we enjoy one another’s company. It’s for the best that we have company, though, it keeps things strictly platonic. We’re just friends. We’re all just friends.

We’ve been here a little while now. The drinks are flowing and so is the conversation. It’s not only a lot of fun, chatting about the evening, but it’s reassuring to know that none of us had any luck finding someone. If we hadn’t all had such a rubbish series of micro dates, I might have wondered if there was something wrong with me.

‘Did you speak to the guy who kept going on about how big his downstairs was?’ Leila asks me.

I don’t know if it’s because we’ve squashed our beef, or because she’s had a fair bit to drink, but I’m finding Leila a lot more fun this evening. She’s more relaxed, more outgoing, less hostile – she’s actually quite funny too.

‘Oh, my God, I did,’ I reply.

‘He just would not shut up about the size of it,’ she continues. ‘He was obsessed.’

Rocco widens his eyes.

‘Really? Guys talk to you like that?’ he asks.

‘They can’t all be like you,’ Leila says, squeezing his arm before grabbing her drink again, and draining the last of it.

‘It was weird, because he was so desperate for me to know exactly how big it was,’ I add. ‘Not by showing me it. Well, no, he wanted to show me it. But it was like, before I filled in my feedback form, he wanted me to know, so that I would consider it when I scored him.’

‘Did he ask you to name an item, and he would say if it was bigger?’ Leila asks me.

‘Yes!’ I reply giddily. The reason I’m so happy comes from sharing this experience with her, as odd as that sounds, because once again, it means it’s nothing to do with me. It’s not the type of men I attract, the calibre of man interested in me, or any kind of vibe I’m putting out. It’s just men. Not all men, though, because the two at this table are clearly horrified, but that’s reassuring too. It makes it easier to laugh.

‘I said a cucumber,’ she tells me before lowering her voice and widening her eyes. ‘Bigger!’

‘I said a baseball bat,’ I tell her through a giggle.

‘Wow, okay, those are some high expectations,’ Tobias says, the colour draining from his face.

‘I wanted to make sure I said something ridiculous,’ I reply. ‘I didn’t like the way he was lording it over me, as though I would be powerless to resist it.

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