You Were There Too by Colleen Oakley

Author:Colleen Oakley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

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I blink at the screen now, and then scroll through my library of pictures and find the one I’m looking for. I hold my breath, hit send and wait.

The ellipses pop up and disappear at least four times.

And then: Is that Keanu Reeves?

I grin. Three days ago, out of curiosity, I downloaded the book Oliver ghostwrote for the celebrity chef Carson Flanagan and started reading it. When I told Oliver last night, he said it was only fair that I show him my work, too.

Yep.

I explain briefly about the mediocre theme and wait for the requisite male response—how Point Break or The Matrix is the Greatest Movie of All Time. It takes him three long minutes to type his reply and then:

I don’t know—he was pretty amazing in The Lake House.

I bark with laughter and it echoes off the steel garage doors. My phone buzzes in my hand.

Send me another.

My eyes light on the carnival painting dwarfing the easel it sits on. I snap a picture of it, but then hesitate. It feels personal, somehow. Too intimate to share, even though it originated in a dream about him. Or maybe because it was a dream about him. Or maybe it has nothing to do with the picture and everything to do with the way I feel when we’re texting: light, buzzy, eager. Eager to come up with the cleverest response. Eager for his reply. Slightly guilty for all the eagerness. It’s not like I’ve been hiding it from Harrison. He knows we’re still in touch. I even told him some of the bizarre dreams we’d uncovered in our online explorations.

Still, I stare at the picture, and instead of hitting send, I pull up the IVF message board up. MissyK874 still hasn’t posted, so I start browsing the other threads, and get lost in the world of other women with empty bellies that long for them to be full.

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