Someone Just Like You by Meredith Schorr

Author:Meredith Schorr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Michelle sat on the bronze-colored loveseat in the bathroom. Nicole had texted her to join us here immediately. “Did you honestly never notice before?”

I hovered over the sink where I’d just splashed cold water on my face. I hadn’t puked yet, but the night was still young. “No. I swear.” It was the truth. I’d been seriously oblivious. Or had I been in denial? Esther had pointed out the resemblance from the very beginning. But Jude was my enemy. Or at least he had been when I first met Timothy. Why would I want to date someone who looked like my enemy?

“Timothy isn’t the first either.”

A shiver ran through me. I turned to face Nicole, who was standing next to me in front of the mirror. “The first what?”

My middle sister glanced between me and Michelle while chewing on her peach lipstick. “Have you ever even dated a guy with blond hair?”

I harrumphed. “It’s called a type. I like dark-haired men—”

“Who look like Jude,” Michelle interrupted.

My head spun. It was like the early aughts all over again—being ganged up on by my bossy older sisters. Although, to be fair, they were way meaner to each other than they ever were to me. “I’ll give you Timothy. But claiming every guy I’ve dated looks like Jude is grasping at straws.” Wasn’t it? I leaned my back against the edge of the sink and crossed my arms over my chest.

“It’s not just looks,” Nicole whispered before ducking her head.

My heart thudded in my chest. “What?”

She lifted her chin slightly. “Amal was also the youngest of three kids.”

I blew a raspberry. “Fluke. Lots of people have two older siblings, including me. It proves nothing.” I worked to sound assured on the outside, but inside I was losing ground—fast. Fearing my legs wouldn’t hold out, I joined Michelle on the couch.

“What about Isaac from law school? Didn’t you say his mechanism to relieve tense moments was to break into dance? Sounds a lot like Jude back in the day. And let’s not forget the minor league baseball player you dated before Timothy.” Nicole squeezed into the small space on my other side. Three grown sisters on a couch built for two.

“Jude hasn’t played baseball since high school!” Wait. Was that the root of all of this? I felt awful about Jude’s accident in high school and therefore sought guys who reminded me of him in order to…to what?

Michelle snickered. “Don’t get your G-string in a bunch, Mole.” She stood.

I scowled up at her. “Easy for you to say.”

Nicole rubbed my arm affectionately. “If it makes you feel better, Jude does it too.”

“Right. I mean…c’mon…look at Charley!” Michelle froze as the bathroom door opened.

We all turned around.

Charley.

“Hi!” She waved cheerily. Unaware she’d been the topic of our conversation mere seconds earlier, she entered a stall while the three of us spent the next half minute gaping toward the space she’d just abandoned.

A noise escaped Nicole’s mouth right before she clamped her mouth tightly closed.

Michelle pressed her hand to her stomach and hinged at her hips.

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