There's Cake in My Future by Gruenenfelder Kim

Author:Gruenenfelder, Kim [Gruenenfelder, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-12-21T06:00:00+00:00

Twenty-four

Seema

I am so fucking tired.

Although I was happy to help Mel get everything out of her old place, I wish she would have put a little more thought into the timing. We were packing and loading up until five in the morning. By the time we got home, Mel was completely hyped up on a combination of coffee, Diet Monsters, and adrenaline. I, on the other hand, could fall asleep on a bed of nails. I yawn as we each carry in Glad bags of her clothes.

“Isn’t this just the best day?!” Mel announces, beaming. “Where do you want to go for brunch? I’m buying!”

“Sweetie,” I say. “I can barely keep my eyes open. We’ve got our cars locked in the garage, so your stuff is safe. Let’s just take a nap, and…” I yawn so wide that my ears pop, “leave the rest of the unpacking for later in the day.”

“We need to join an online dating service,” Mel tells me purposefully.

My eyes are stinging. At what point does someone slip from a really good friend into a codependent? “You’ve had too much ginseng and caffeine. Go to bed.”

“I know a lot of success stories,” Mel insists to me as she tosses her Glad bags of clothes onto her bed.

“No, you don’t,” I counter, throwing my Glad bags next to her closet.

“Yes, I do,” Mel insists.

I heave a big sigh. “No. You know people who dated someone who wasn’t all that into them for three months, maybe a year. Or, worse, you may know some people who were never in love but who married their safety net—because they weren’t getting any younger and at least this person was nice to them. But you do not know anyone who actually fell in love on a dating Web site.”

“I don’t need to fall in love,” Mel says to me passionately. “As a matter of fact, I specifically don’t want to fall in love. I want to have indiscriminate sex with gorgeous men who I toss aside the next day. I want all of the benefits of being courted without the costs of being caught.”

Our phone rings. Mel picks up on the first ring. “Forget it. It’s not going to work this time,” she says proudly. “I’m out, and I’m going to have better sex than you ever dreamed!”

Mel listens to the caller a moment, then hands me the phone. “It’s for you.”

I furrow my brow as I take the phone. “Hello?”

“I take it you’ve been out with Mel all night,” Scott guesses, sounding amused.

“We’ve been moving,” I say, walking out of her room with the phone. “What are you doing up so early?”

“Working, feeling guilty for not having called you all week,” Scott says. “I miss you. How have you been?”

He misses me! Yay! There is a God!

“Fine,” I say. “Other than the fact that Mel is trying to talk me into participating in the idiocy of online dating.”

“I heard that!” Mel yells from her room.

“You were meant to!” I yell back.

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