A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day by Jackie Lau

Author:Jackie Lau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: holiday romance, Best friend's little sister, Valentine's Day, Asian romance, humor, romantic comedy, Canadian romance, Asian hero, Asian heroine
Publisher: Jackie Lau Books
Published: 2020-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“Let’s see if I’ve got this right,” Gloria said. “There was a blackout on Wednesday night, I wasn’t responding, so you went to Sebastian’s and stayed overnight?”

“Yep.” Amber sipped her beer. “What else was I going to do until bedtime?”

“You could have hung out at Tim Hortons. Or here.” Gloria took off her black fedora and gestured to their surroundings. “You could have spent the evening staring at Justin Bieber.” She pointed at the poster on the wall.

“Or I could have had sex. It was an easy decision. What’s wrong with a booty call?”

“Nothing,” Gloria said. “But you could have returned home to sleep, yet you stayed. Just trying to figure out what’s going on.”

“What happened the next morning?” Roxanne asked.

“He made me coffee and French toast with baked bananas,” Amber said morosely, knowing how her friends would take it.

“He likes you. He definitely likes you.”

“No,” Amber protested. “He’s just a sweet guy, that’s all.”

“You think he makes French toast for every booty call?” Gloria asked.

“I don’t think Sebastian has many booty calls, to be honest.”

“Yet he made an exception for you.”

“We agreed it’s just sex.”

“Perhaps he thought that at the beginning,” Roxanne said. “But French toast? With baked bananas?”

“And a strawberry garnish.” Amber wasn’t sure why she mentioned that. It was adding fuel to the fire.

“He garnished your fucking breakfast?” Gloria spoke as though this was truly shocking information. “None of my boyfriends or girlfriends have done that for me.”

Amber’s lips twitched at her friend’s vehemence. “Well, they should. You deserve a strawberry garnish.”

“Ha!” Gloria said. “You didn’t protest and say he isn’t your boyfriend.”

Oops. She hadn’t. It didn’t mean anything, though.

“I’m drunk. My brain isn’t operating at a hundred percent.”

“Oh, come on. You’re only on your second pint. You’re not that cheap of a drunk.”

“Personally,” Roxanne said, “I think the baked bananas are a bigger deal than the strawberries. Slicing up strawberries takes a minute. Baking bananas requires more effort.”

“But less hands-on time,” Gloria countered. “No, strawberries are inherently romantic. If a guy serves you strawberries, he knows what he’s doing. Bananas might have been meant as a dirty joke. Like, he wants you to bake his banana.”

“What does that even mean?” Amber asked.

“Who knows. I just made it up.”

“Anyway,” Roxanne said, after raising an eyebrow at Gloria, “this guy definitely has a crush on Amber. On that we agree.”

“Yep.” Gloria took a swig of her beer. “Amber, this guy wants you for more than your hot body and great skills in the sack. I’m positive.”

“And you definitely want him, too,” Roxanne added.

“Have you not been listening to anything I’ve said?” Amber curled her hands in frustration. “We’re fucking, and we like each other’s company. I don’t want anything romantic.”

“Then why have we been talking about this for twenty minutes?” Gloria demanded.

“Hey, this wasn’t my choice of conversation.”

“But you keep adding interesting details.” Roxanne crossed her arms over her chest. “I think you secretly want him, but you’re in denial.”

“My thoughts exactly,” Gloria said. “The reason you keep bringing up all the things he’s done—”

“Is because I’m drunk!” Amber protested.

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