Modern Persuasion by Marks Sara

Author:Marks, Sara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Illuminated Myth Publishing
Published: 2017-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

I stayed in the hotel room watching Fredrick on the scheduled local morning shows. I felt more relaxed than I had all tour until I got to the first bookstore we were visiting in Chicago: the Northwestern University bookstore. Once everything was set up to my liking, I found Fredrick, Louisa, and Seth in the break room, waiting for the reading to start. My anxiety wasn't about the reading but being around Fredrick now that I could admit I was still in love with him.

"Coffee? Tea?" I asked.

"Beer," Fredrick said.

"No," I said, putting my finger on my lip. "I'll just go and get us tea."

When I returned with the tea and coffee (and water for Seth), I found Fredrick pacing. I had never seen him do this before because Patrick usually stayed with Fredrick before the reading.

"Emma," Louisa said, glancing at Fredrick. "What was that little chant you said when you walked out of the room?"

I knit my eyebrows together. "What do you mean? What little chant?"

"Cup, cup, cup, cup, tea, tea, tea, tea," she said with a half-smile.

I laughed a little to myself. I'd been doing that for so long that I no longer realized I did it. "My mother used to say that when she made me a cup of tea. You should know where it's from. You've seen the movie plenty of times."

"I have no idea," Louisa said, shaking her head.

"My Fair Lady," Fredrick said as he paced.

Louisa looked back and forth between the two of us. "Ok, so the two of you obviously know this, and I have no memory of that line from the movie. I've been watching you all month, and you say it every time you go get drinks."

I looked at Fredrick, expecting him to relax or catch my eye, but he continued pacing. "It's from when Eliza is learning to speak better," I said. "He makes her say 'cup of tea' over and over. She keeps saying cuppa tea, which most British people actually say."

"Yeah, I don't care. What I find amusing," Louisa said. "Every time you say it, Freddy mouths it along with you in perfect time and then laughs to himself."

I over at Fredrick again, but his back was to me, and he was looking over the passage he would read. He had probably heard me say it so many times while we were together that it was just stuck in his head.

Louisa looked playfully annoyed. "Is it a Northwestern thing? A Chicago thing? Freddy does it every time. EVERY TIME!"

"Does it annoy you?" Seth asked, a big grin on his face.

"No, but it makes me feel like there's some inside joke that I don't get! It makes me feel like Mary, and I hate that," Louisa said, turning to me.

"It's really nothing," Fredrick said as I gave Louisa a half-smile.

I wasn't going to blurt out our history without his consent. Louisa reluctantly let it drop.

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