“ALL RIGHT!” MARA SAYS,
as she walks into my bedroom that weekend.
“Let’s download. It’s time you start spilling, Edy—I’m supposed to be your
best friend, right?”
I close and lock the door behind her.
“What do you mean?” I ask as she plops down on my bed and takes her
coat off.
“I mean, do I ever get to see you anymore? You’re spending
everywakingminute with Joshua Miller and you haven’t given me any details
whatsoever. So, it’s time to spill your guts.”
“I don’t know.” I shrug. “What is there to tell?”
“Tons! Okay, let’s start with where are you going when you’re together
every day? Are you going to Joshua Miller’s house?” she asks, raising her
eyebrows.
I laugh. “Yes, I’ve even been in Joshua Miller’s bedroom.”
“No shit. Joshua Miller’s bedroom,” she repeats in awe.
“Okay, you need to stop calling him Joshua Miller, Mara. It’s weird.”
“But . . . he’s Joshua Miller, Edy.”
“I’m aware of that.” I sit down in my desk chair and look at her, so excited
for me, and I try really hard not to get excited for me too.
“So what do you call him? Sweetie? Sexy? Sugar? Greek God?”
“Yeah, Mara, I call him Greek God.” I laugh, throwing a pillow at her face.
“Josh usually does the trick, though.”
“Josh . . . ,” she repeats, rolling the word around in her mouth. “So, what’s
he really like?”
“I don’t know. He’s nice. He’s just . . . he’s really nice, actually.”
“And hot, don’t forget,” she adds, like I could ever forget that. “So have
you . . . you know? Had sex?” she whispers.
I nod my head yes.
“Oh my God! What was it like? What was he like?” she asks awkwardly,
scooting to the edge of the bed.
“No, I’m not discussing this.”
“Come on, I need to live vicariously through you,” she pleads.
“Well, what’s going on with you and Cameron?”
“Nothing.” She sighs. “Not even close. Still just friends.” And suddenly, the
way she looks at me, I feel an entire ocean between us, and we’re standing on
opposite shores, staring at each other from the farthest ends of the world.
“So, come on, tell me about your hot boyfriend. Please?” she asks, rather
than acknowledging this great distance.
“He’s not my boyfriend,” I correct her.
“He doesn’t want to be your boyfriend?” she asks, scrunching her face up.
“What, he just wants to sleep with you and—”
“No. It’s me. I don’t want to be his girlfriend.”
“Are you insane?” she asks immediately.
“Maybe.” I laugh.
“Seriously, though. Are you totally insane?”
“I just—I don’t know. I don’t like the idea, I guess. I don’t wanna be tied
down like that. Obligated. Stuck, you know?”
“That doesn’t make any sense at all. But okay. As long as he’s not trying to
keep you guys a secret or anything scummy like that?”
“He’s not. I promise. And it’s not scummy to want a little privacy.”
“Whatever you say, Eeds. I wouldn’t know anything about it, I guess.” She
relents, a hint of something like resentment there beneath the surface. But she
quickly pushes it back down wherever it came from and grins. “So is it good?
Or fun? Or whatever it’s supposed to be.” She laughs, embarrassed. “Is he,
you know, nice to you, when you’re together, I mean?”
I nod yes.
She smiles. “He better be.”
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