Room Service by Poppy Dunne

Author:Poppy Dunne [Dunne, Poppy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01N0O184Z
Goodreads: 32610758
Publisher: Poppy Dunne Books
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

11

It’s not that I’m waiting outside in Central Park in the middle of the snow. It’s that I’ve been waiting here, just north of Strawberry Fields, for fifteen minutes past the time Ben texted back and said he’d meet me. Well, maybe my growing paranoia has a little to do with the snow. And the fact that it’s so cold, and my chin is going numb. And the fact that these same pigeons keep waddling by and shooting me looks. I know what’s going on in their little pigeon-y brains. ‘Wow, look at that sad sack who’s standing by and waiting for her latest hook up. Remember kids, this is why you need to get that M.R.S. degree in college.’

Fun fact: all pigeons sound like my mother.

Okay, so Ben’s fifteen minutes late. Maybe this whole thing is karma getting me back for keeping Todd waiting that long, even if he is an oily jackass. Maybe it serves me right.

I shiver and shove my hands even deeper into my pockets. Ben’s probably just held up in traffic. Or literally being held up by a guy in a black ski mask and an orange jumpsuit, straight from Rikers Island. Then they’ll commence a foot chase through Central Park as Ben tries to get his wallet back, culminating in them all showing up right in front of me. And then I’ll karate chop the criminal in the throat, and Ben will get his wallet back, and then we will make out gloriously while a crowd cheers around us before we give in to the passion and start doing it in the snow.

Then Ben gets the key to the city, and we rule New York together with an iron fist.

This got so out of control so fast that I’m a little impressed with myself.

I shift from foot to foot, my breath still puffing white clouds in the air. I’m probably this anxious because of how I left Todd. No, because of Todd in general. That anyone could be that skeezy, that morally bankrupt, it kind of taints the rest of the human race for you. No one is innocent or pure enough to escape my cynical thoughts. See, there’re a couple of adorable, cherub-cheeked kids running past me gleefully, tugging sleds behind them. They’re probably serial adulterers as well, little monsters.

No, but there is a bright spot in this stupid universe. A literal bright spot, with an amazing tan and glorious blond hair named Ben. A bright spot who is currently running late, and turning me even more insane than I was before. If only…

Hold on. Why am I even getting this hung up on Ben, anyway? It’s kind of a miracle he’s been able to get all this time off to spend with me in the first place. We’re not really dating, after all. It just feels like an incredibly real simulation. Or stimulation.

Heh. See, I can amuse myself just fine.

Point is, the Ben thing is over after this weekend. Most likely. No, definitely.

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