No Coincidences by Tessa D'Errico

Author:Tessa D'Errico [D'Errico, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

Back in our room, we find out that Nadia’s “emergency” is, as expected, about the guy she’s hooking up with, who’s name she still won’t give up. She sits us all down in the living room like she’s holding an intervention, on the verge of tears.

She tells us all about this secret drawer she has in her room, where she keeps everything that her man asks her to keep in her room because he’s too afraid to be caught with it, mostly weed, she says.

Addy, Isa, and I avoid looking at each other, trying not to give away that we already know exactly what she’s talking about because we saw it ourselves because we’re awful people who dig through our roommate’s drawers.

“But now,” she says, her voice breaking, “he’s asking me to keep a bunch of Adderall in my room for him to sell and he wouldn’t listen to me when I told him I wasn’t comfortable doing that.”

Isabel is the one who talks some sense into Nadia, reminding her that if this guy really cared about her, he wouldn’t put her in a situation that would make her so uncomfortable. She’s the last person I expect to calm Nadia down, and the last person I thought Nadia would listen do, but it works. She finally looks like she’s not on the verge of mental collapse once Isabel’s done talking to her.

I debate texting Reed after our little roommate meeting ends, ask him if he wants me to come back to his room. But I’m too afraid he would tell me no. That maybe with space he would think it had been a mistake, and I’d be making a fool out of myself for trying. Then I remember how good it felt to touch him again, and I think maybe I should text him. But I restrain myself.

When I finally fall asleep, I have a dream that Reed and I are dating. He takes me out somewhere nice for dinner in his car, and when we get back to his room, we end up on his bed. I can feel his hands running over my thigh, the feeling of his skin under my hands, his lips on mine. But I wake up before anything happens.

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