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Story: Surprised By Her
I let out a breath. My parents knew about Ryan, but it was different talking to a friend your age about something like this.
“I’m sort of dating someone? I mean, we’re not dating, we’re hanging out.”
“Hanging out,” Sydney said slowly, as if she was skeptical. “Is that what people are calling it now?”
I pulled up the new orders and started printing the shipping labels.
“I don’t know what it is. All I know is that it’s good. Really good.”
Sydney grinned. “I fucking love this for you. Tell me everything.” I followed her to the door so she could unlock it. No one was standing outside, so we had at least a few minutes for me to talk about Ryan.
“She’s, um…” I trailed off, at a loss for words to describe Ryan. “She’s tall. And sexy. And funny. She’s good at everything. And I feel good around her,” I said.
“Tall, you say?” Sydney said.
“Yes,” I said slowly.
“Would her last name be Jewel, by any chance?” she asked.
Two people walked in just then and I smiled at her.
“I’m going to pack orders, talk later!” I called and scampered into the back.
“It is Ryan, I knew it,” Sydney said after those customers had left. “Layne is going to be thrilled.”
“Is she?” I asked. “I’m definitely not good enough for her. She’s so out of my league, I try not to think about it that much.”
Sydney scoffed. “That’s ridiculous. You’re cute and fun and so sweet, Everly. You see people, and you care about them.”
I couldn’t stop myself from blushing.
“She’s leaving, though. Her life isn’t here. My life is here,” I said. My new life.
“That doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time while she’s here. Maybe that’s what you both need. Just a sexy summer romance to blow off the cobwebs,” she said, raising and lowering her eyebrows.
“I’ve never had a summer romance before,” I said. “I don’t really know what I’m doing.”
Sydney squeezed my shoulder. “I’ve had lots of summer romances. I can be your summer romance Yoda. You’ve got this.”
Sydney had a whole lot more confidence in me seeing this through than I did.
“I guess,” I said. My phone went off with a message from Ryan. It was a picture of her holding up a rock with a perfect white ring around it.
Wishing rock? she asked.
It’s perfect I responded.
Wish you were here with me she sent.
You’re not supposed to tell anyone your wish, that way it won’t come true I replied.
See? I’m not good at everything. I’m bad at wishing she sent.
“It seems to be going well,” Sydney said, and I looked up from my phone. I’d almost completely forgot she was standing there.
“She’s so intimidating,” I said. “And not just because of being tall. She grew up going to a country club and she went to a fancy college and she knows how to hire a helicopter. I feel like we don’t have anything in common,” I said, voicing one of my biggest fears when it came to Ryan.
Sydney leaned against the wall.
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