Straight by Seth King

Author:Seth King [King, Seth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-26T18:30:00+00:00

11

I wake up the next morning filled with a dread that has nothing to do with my hangover: I have to spend the day with Caroline. Which means I’ll be apart from Ty. Which means my day will be as colorless as the sky in winter…

The brunch is at this fancy restaurant on the marsh. I know I’m totally single, but still: I’m sitting next to a girl who wants to date me, in the presence of her family, and it makes me more than a little anxious and uncomfortable. Ty texts and Snapchats me the entire time, thankfully, which makes it a bit more tolerable. I’m starting to get addicted to even his digital correspondence, and sometimes I get mad if he even takes a few minutes to text back. But I’m grateful for the distraction. I have no interest in any of these people, and whenever something happens I find myself wondering what Ty would think about it, or what he would say about so-and-so. A few times I picture myself envisioning what I’ve already decided is my favorite part of his body: that curve of the top of his thighs where his legs join and give way to his balls…

I am horny the entire meal. (My rage button is bizarrely close to my sex button, and always has been.) Caro won’t stop touching me and asking me to come home with her, either, which isn’t helping my horniness or my annoyance. Basically I simply cannot stand her family and friends. The more I am around these people, the more I realize this isn’t what I want. The men do not talk to the women, as if there is a magical line separating male from female. The men only chat about hunting and football and business, and the women only chat about weddings and babies and dresses. Was this ever me? Was this ever the person I was? Suddenly it all seems so mindless, so narrow. Ty and his friends and girlfriends – they would be dancing and twerking and taking shots and talking about Housewives drama right now. Meanwhile everyone around me is chortling in hushed tones into glasses of Rosé about the latest college football coaching news, or stock market temper tantrums. How did I ever stand this? All of these people have the same life, or are trying to attain the same life: they want to meet a nice girl or guy, have a pastel-toned wedding at a plantation somewhere, settle in Charlotte or Atlanta, and spend the rest of their lives in four-bedroom McMansions hooting for their teams on Sundays and working their lives away the rest of the time. I don’t want that. I don’t know what I want, but still, I know it’s not this prefab little life, this maze they’ve gotten lost in. Maybe that’s why I’m so drawn to Ty – he lives so far outside the lines, these people can’t even see him.

Caroline’s dad is the worst part, though,

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