For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes

Author:Caroline Kepnes [Kepnes, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2023-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

28

It’s been twelve minutes and forty-nine hours since you left, and I’ve been cool. Chill. You’ve stayed away from me, as if you’re hiding out on Sesame Street, because despite Sly’s support for you, you still don’t quite trust the people in that room. Your sister shared a photo of you reading a book to Caridad. Strawberry Shortcake and the Winter That Would Not End. I don’t know the book but I’m sure the plucky little redhead melted the snow eventually and fuck it. I miss you. I’m not one of the fellows who backhanded you. I’m me! Very smart, very Salinger. It’s an hour before the reset and I care about you, and I want you to know it.

I text you. Hey you. Wanna meet up before the reset?

You give me a smile and okay. A little part of me thought that your curiosity might have gotten the best of you, that you might have started reading my book. But that’s not Holy shit I loved it you’re a genius, so there’s no way you started, let alone finished. I hit you back.

How you been? I hope you’re not nervous cuz I know it’s gonna be great today.

Lol you mean DID YOU READ MY FREAKING BOOK

It’s the first time I’ve laughed since you were here, and I needed it. And then the bubbles.

Not yet

Not right.

Oh, are you okay?

Work, family, bleh. My dad’s wound vac crapped out so the VNA was here and Caridad is having issues with a friend and then I got stuck filling in for Kimber, pulling a surprise double No fair! And I’m freaking out about today…After class I’ll be a whole new person and I can’t WAIT to read your freaking book! See you in five!

I tell you not to worry and you tell me I’m the best and I know I’m the fucking best. But what if it’s a lie? What if you are reading it, not loving it, and RIP Glenn loved it? RIP Ethel loved it. I’ve cooled my jets a little about Sly. She’s in gerund mode, but then again she did use the l-word and there you are, charging up the street and it stings. You didn’t have time to read but you did have time to go shopping for a new sweater.

“Wow,” I say. “That’s one I haven’t seen before.”

You hold out your arms. “Too pink?”

Yes. “Nah,” I say, and you link your arm through mine.

“Babe, I know I suck. I will read it tonight. For real. You know I’m dying to, right?”

“You don’t suck. And for the record, you’re the one who brought up my book, Wonder. I know how nervous you are about today and in no way shape or form did I expect you to read it.”

“So! Bobby says he knows a guy who might wanna buy your ex-box. Excuse me, jukebox.”

It was your idea to sell the jukebox and it’s the good kind of tension. Sexual and possessive, and who knows? Maybe you bought your

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