Dating-ish by Penny Reid

Author:Penny Reid
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Cipher-Naught
Published: 2017-05-15T18:30:00+00:00

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WEIGHTED MYOPIC MATCHING

Helps physicians match kidneys with donors using AI technologies (a process called dynamic matching via weighted myopia).

Source: Carnegie Mellon University

I DECIDED THAT there was something seriously wrong with me.

Matt had texted me not a half hour after Hurricane Hallway—because that’s how I felt, like I’d been stranded outside in a hurricane—and I felt nothing but numb as I read his message.

Matt: Can I come over?

He wanted to come over?

Why?

I didn’t want him to come over.

Marie: No. I’m trying to get the kids ready for bed.

Matt: I can help

I didn’t respond. I felt hollow. But also, too full. I couldn’t eat the pizza, so I made tea instead. But I couldn’t drink that either.

When Fiona and Greg arrived home, I left immediately after, claiming a headache. It was the truth. I did have a headache. I tried not to think too much about my instinct to sprint down the hall past Matt’s apartment and how I’d pressed the elevator call button seventeen times.

A rush of both relief and misery washed over me as soon as I stepped onto the lift and the doors closed. I walked home in a daze, my mind unable to concentrate or focus on any one thing. Instead, I played the five minutes of seeing Matt with his date over and over and over in my head.

I watched it. I analyzed it. Until I realized doing so made my heart ache anew each time, so I eventually stopped repeating the scene in my head.

The next morning, after not sleeping much, but not crying either, I needed to hear my mother’s voice. A phone call didn’t feel sufficient, so I went online and arranged for a rental car. They even picked me up.

Listening to loud angry music on the way helped me concentrate on driving and not the odd splintering sensation in my chest. I made it to my parents’ place just after 11:00 AM, parking behind my mom’s Toyota in the driveway.

I hadn’t told them I was coming, and so I hesitated, sitting in the rental car.

What if they have plans?

What if my mom isn’t even home?

What if they have a woman over and my being here will make things awkward?

My last crazy thought made me laugh, but it was a sad laugh. Regardless, it was enough to push me out of the car. I walked up the path and hadn’t quite made it to the rose bushes before the door opened, revealing my mom.

She wore a big smile, one hand on the door, one hand on her hip. “Well, if it isn’t the most brilliant and beautiful woman in the world! To what do we owe this honor?”

I returned her smile.

And then I promptly burst into tears.

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