Thanks for Waiting by Doree Shafrir

Author:Doree Shafrir [Shafrir, Doree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2021-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

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THAT FRIDAY, Matt picked me up in his car. “So where are we going?” I said.

He grinned. “Disneyland.”

“Okay, wow!” I said. I was into it, but I was a little skeptical—I wasn’t someone who especially loved Disney, nor had I felt compelled to visit Disneyland since moving to L.A. “Is this a thing people do, go on dates to Disneyland?”

He looked at me from the driver’s seat. “Yeah, of course,” he said. “You don’t need to have kids to go to Disneyland.”

I knew that, of course, but I had always been confused by adults who went to Disneyland without kids. What was the point? But once we got there, I had to admit, it did feel pretty special. I took a photo of Sleeping Beauty’s palace, which sits at the end of Main Street, all lit up. I posted it on Instagram and captioned it: “Typical Friday night hang.” The night was fun and silly and we held hands as we walked around, and Matt introduced me to Dole Whip, and to cream cheese–filled pretzels in the shape of Mickey Mouse. Matt was a Disney expert—he’d been dozens of times since moving to Southern California—and I surprised myself by actually caring about the little bits of Disney trivia he was telling me, like pointing out the names of the stores on Main Street and explaining that a lot of them were the names of Imagineers who had worked on the original construction of Disneyland. Was I now a person who cared about Disney Imagineers? I must really like this guy, I thought.

When we got back to my apartment, we made out on my stoop for a few minutes. Then I turned to him and said, “So I know this is a little crazy, and normally I would never ask, but for some reason it feels totally normal to ask, so, um, do you want to come to dinner with my sister and her husband tomorrow night?” Karen and Steve were flying into town the next day, and we had plans to eat at an Italian restaurant in Venice.

He did. I went to bed that night, feeling giddy and excited, and wanting to talk to him on the phone until I fell asleep.

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