The Bachelorettes by Maria Jackson

Author:Maria Jackson [Jackson, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-10T23:00:00+00:00

Claudia

After lunch, Miriam passed the sketchbook across the kitchen table. Let’s go for another walk. She’d added five or six winky faces.

The suggestion was highly tempting. My whole body wanted to go for a “walk.” I could still feel everything we’d done out there before, and I could imagine all the other things we might do this time. It took a lot of self-control for me to shake my head.

She took the book back and set her pen to the page. Why not?

Too obvious, I wrote. Even writing back and forth like this is going to look sketchy as hell when Tina watches the footage. She’s going to figure out the only reason we’d need to write is to flirt.

“Wow,” Miriam said out loud. “I really love this drawing you did. Your art skills are coming along so nicely.”

I had to laugh. There was no way anyone would fall for that, but I went along with it just in case. “Thanks so much. I feel like your advice is helping a lot.”

I don’t exactly know if the cameras can zoom in on what we’re writing, she wrote down. Especially when we’re not in our bunks.

My eyebrows rose, and I pinned her with a glare. “Excuse me?”

“But I mean…” She grabbed the sketchbook back and scribbled again. But I’m 99% sure we have privacy out on the path.

I slammed the book shut quickly, freaked out by the thought of anyone seeing her words. This whole cloak-and-dagger thing was threatening to give me a heart attack. She’d said that writing in the sketchbook was safe, so I’d believed it was safe!

“I’m going to try to do some yoga,” I said.

“Oh?”

“Alone!”

I grabbed a towel from the closet and headed outside. I set up under a tree and tried to remember the poses from the course I’d taken years ago. All I could think of was downward dog, so I tried that.

Miriam was out of her mind for making our relationship so obvious. Seriously, had she never heard of subtlety? She might as well have yelled out “We want to fuck!” on national TV.

Giving up on yoga, I got on the ground and did a couple of push-ups. The situation with Miriam had me full of energy that I needed to work off somehow. My upper body lacked the strength to keep going for long, so I got up and tried some jumping jacks.

A few minutes had me breathless, but it still wasn’t enough. Maybe I should try jogging like she did. Maybe she’d be jogging at the same time and we’d run into each other along the path. We’d be far from the reach of any cameras, and we’d immediately melt into each other’s arms. We’d pick up where we’d left off before, and…

I got back down to the ground. Five more push-ups – I forced myself through – and then twenty sit-ups.

And yet I was still dreaming about Miriam. Fuck. She was under my skin, and there was nothing I could do to get her out.

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