The Accidental Socialite by Stephanie Wahlstrom

Author:Stephanie Wahlstrom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic comedy, new adult, contemporary romance, chic lit, Canada, London
Publisher: Swoon Romance
Published: 2014-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

Things between Jason and I were tense for the next few weeks. Neither of us really knew where we were going and there is a certain point in a relationship where you have to make some tough calls. In the last few months there hadn’t even been a conversation about exclusivity. This was in part because I wasn’t pushing the subject; I still wanted to keep my options open here.

On the other hand, Jason hadn’t breeched the subject either, and for all I knew he had a girl in every London postcode. The problem was now that both of us had let this go on for so long without any clarification, changing the game would probably ruin things. I decided to bring it up after it took me five minutes to answer a simple yes or no question from Gisele: “Are you single?”

We were at an amazing hole in the wall Polish restaurant in Southwark called Baltic. Walking by it you would never know that inside is a modern, New York style bar and dining room with exposed brick, great cocktails, and even better food. We were sitting in a corner booth and I was having Gravadlax, which is basically smoked salmon and potato cakes with sour cream and added yumminess. I was struggling to decide on my third cocktail (I know, I have real problems, right?) when for some reason between talking about the elderflower and raspberry cocktail and sucking down the ginger and strawberry I was already drinking, I had verbal diarrhea. It went something like this:

“Canada, what’s the next drink going to be?”

“So, like, what are we?” Slurp.

“What do you mean?”

“Have you ever had elderflower before? When did it become, like, a ‘thing?’” I said with crooked air quotes.

“Do you want to meet my parents?” he asked with the fourth cocktail haze over his eyes and suddenly made a face, which I took to mean he wanted to immediately take back what he just said.

“But, I don’t even know what we ‘are.’” And out came the air quotes again. I think I was subconsciously trying to show off my homemade manicure. “Like seriously, it took me forever to answer this girl who I want to be my boss’s question. All she asked was if I was single.” I sighed, drunk and exhausted from trying to make a coherent sentence out of the nonsense running through my head.

“Paige, my parents are in town this week and I thought maybe you’d want to come out for dinner with us. No pressure. I haven’t told them what we ‘are.’” Jason also used air quotes to make me feel better. Why was it cute when he did it? And how did he manage to still not answer the question?

I ordered my elderflower concoction and stared sheepishly at the empty place where my plate was moments ago. They need to stop trying to do all this useless space satellite stuff and find a way to go back in time and undo drunken conversations.

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