Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne
Author:Sally Thorne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: 2021-02-12T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Sixteen
You did good,â Melanie says with her head inside my closet. âYour first worksheet was excellent. You were really honest about your dream man.â
(Was I, though?)
âThanks, Mel. And yours looks good too.â I am sitting on my bed, reading her version of the worksheet: the dream job edition. âI think what Iâm seeing here is that you donât like any job where the days are the same.â
âYeah. It makes me start to feel like Iâm decaying.â She tosses a handful of clothes on the bed, still on their hangers. âBut donât try to distract me. Weâre talking about you. Bring on the Sasaki Method, Week 2.â
My swimsuit is on a hanger from the curtain rail. Itâs been dry for three days now, but I havenât put it away because itâs a reminder that what happened between Teddy and me was real.
I changed when I jumped in that pool. I got younger.
Iâve soaked myself in something that has made my skin sensitive. Iâve been breathless ever since we swam in the same water and he told me words like sublime, sizzle, magnetic. I need to walk around naked for a few minutes to recalibrate myself, but the moment I even touch a button or zip, heâs knocking on my front door, asking to borrow something.
A knife, fork, plate, and frying pan have all gone next door. After dinner, he appropriates a squirt of washing-up detergent. He leans in my doorway drying my things with my dishcloth, telling me about the ridiculous tasks he performed for Renata, and I canât stop staring at the toes of his boots on the threshold to my apartment. Heâs creating a boundary for us. The fact that he sees a need to? I get a delicious shiver in my stomach.
Without thought I tell Melanie, âTeddyâs made me doubt this whole project.â
âDid you just tell me to my face that Teddy Prescott is making you doubt me and my Method?â Melanie throws a tweed blazer onto the bed with violence. âYouâre going to take advice from a man-child like him?â
I am compelled to defend him. âThatâs harsh.â
âItâs accurate.â She holds up a blouse and makes a face. âRemember, heâs a test. You need to stay strong and resist the urge.â
âThereâs no urge,â I begin to lie, but she holds up a hand.
âMy mother says in any relationship, thereâs an adorer and an adoree. One who loves, and the one who is loved. Youâll need to know which one you are.â
âAdorer. Adore-ee.â I sound out the unfamiliar made-up word. I think of my mom and dad. Thatâs pretty clear-cut. He doesnât even buy her a birthday present; she bakes him a triple-layered cake. âGive and take.â
âExactly. Theodore Prescott is permanently on the hunt for an adorer. And he will take all the adoration until you have no more. Then, like a big old honeybee, off heâll go, buzz, buzz, buzz . . .â
Teddyâd probably agree, but I wish sheâd stop. âJust warning you, if heâs home, he can hear you through the wall.
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