When We Were Young by Jaclyn Goldis

Author:Jaclyn Goldis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: None
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2021-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

In the morning, no call or text from Grant. Just a reminder from her mother of their long-standing appointment for lunch and urgent wedding decisions. Joey responded I’ll be there, but please don’t think what I know now is in any sense of the word dropped. With a hazy detachment, she surveyed her puffy eyes. They begged for concealer. She indulged them.

When she made it outside, there was Leo straddling a motorcycle, his face to the sun. The moment was almost intimate in its rapture. Leo returned his head upright and blinked a few times.

“Hey there, Jonesey.”

“I should have known you’d be on a bike.” She took the helmet he extended but hesitated. It felt too intimate, the two of them squished together on a bike. She should have just told Leo she’d meet him wherever they were going. But it seemed too late to back out now.

“Why go for aircon blasting in a box when you can get the real thing for free?” Leo started the motor. “Climb on.”

Joey clicked the helmet straps shut and slipped on a pair of round see-through orange sunglasses that Grant joked made her look like she was eighty and a beetle.

“I need to be back by noon. Lunch at the parents’.”

“That’s fine.”

“And I don’t want to touch you.” Joey didn’t know that was going to come out. Her cheeks flamed.

Leo grimaced. “I suppose I deserve it, Jonesey. But that’s a little impossible given what we’re working with here.”

“Yeah, fine.” She climbed on behind him. “Groovy.” She didn’t think she’d used that word before, ever.

“Groovy,” he repeated. “You can hold on to the bar in back.”

“Is it as safe?”

“As what?” She didn’t want to say your waist. “Hold on wherever you want, Jones. The world is your oyster.”

“Is it?” she asked lightly.

But Leo had already started the motor. Joey gripped the bar behind her. Then, as they sped off, her cheek rested against the fuzz of Leo’s shirt. So quickly, so lightly, that maybe it didn’t happen at all.

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