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understand.”
“You don’t think I’m being nice?” she said.
“No, I mean…That’s not what I meant, I said it wrong.”
She laughed then. She was just yanking my chain. I loved the sound of her
laugh.
“I think you’re nice,” I said.
“I’m a wonderful person,” she said with a grin.
CHAPTER
SEVEN
MOLLY
“So, is this a real date?” Megan asks me that every
time I see Brock. We have been hanging out a lot for the past month or so, but
each time she asks me that I say, “No, Meggs . We’re
still just hanging out.” She grins at me, like she knows something that I don’t
know. Maybe she does. There are a lot of things I don’t know. I mean, I did
tell her that I didn’t even want to meet this guy in the first place. Now I
look forward to his phone calls and even to the times I go over to his
apartment and help him with his homework. Sometimes he even helps me with mine.
He’s very “right-brained” and I’m not. I work from the left side of my brain
almost always. If it doesn’t have a logical equation, I’d prefer to not have
anything to do with it. So, when I have to draw an abstract sketch in art
class, Brock is my man. Well, not my man, more like the man. Anyways, he’s
awesome with creative stuff and I’m better at the logical things like math and
science. Maybe together we make one brain?
Are we dating though? It’s still a no. That one brain
thing isn’t like two hearts make a whole. I’m sure every two people who work
well together are like that. But it’s not dating. We don’t hold hands, although
the one night we danced at the club and he held my hands and pulled me in
close, I have to admit I had a hard time catching my breath. He looked down at me;
like he was afraid I was going to pull away. I did think about it, but I didn’t
want to. It felt…comfortable, so I stayed there until the song was over and we
went back to our table. We held hands for the dance, but we don’t walk around
holding hands.
Another thing that proves we’re just hanging out and
not dating is that we have never kissed. Megan and Jake are dating, and they do
an awful lot of kissing. So much it kind of makes me sick sometimes. I mean,
there is such a thing as too much PDA, am I right?
Have I thought about kissing him? Oh, yeah, I’ve
thought about it. That night when we were dancing, sometimes when he leans in
close while we’re working on our homework, or in the middle of Benny and Joon last weekend when he quoted Joon ,
“Having a Boo Radley moment are we?” I mean really, what nineteen-year-old guy
knows Benny and Joon that well? It’s one of my
favorite movies; Grandma and I used to watch it together all the time. That one
and Untamed Heart . I think I would
have to kiss him if he quoted Marissa Tomei, “He doesn’t make sense. I don’t
make sense. Together we make sense.” Yeah, I’d probably kiss him full on the
lips for that one… Maybe I’ll rent it next week…Anyways, I’m pretty sure that
the fact we’ve never kissed still means we’re not dating.
“He’s taking you on a haunted train ride for
Halloween. That’s pretty romantic for a couple that’s not dating,” Megan was
still going on. I sometimes wonder if Megan wishes she was dating Brock.
“It just sounds like fun,” I said. It’s Halloween.
What are we going to do, trick or treat? Go to some lame sorority or fraternity
costume party? I found out, since we’ve been hanging out so much together, that
Brock doesn’t drink either. The fact that he stays on a really strict diet and
doesn’t drink alcohol helps me out a lot. That’s what happened with my first
and last college boyfriend. They were the same guy. He kept taking me to
parties and I finally told him I didn’t want to go to anymore parties where the
main focus was the keg in the middle of the room. He told me that maybe if I
had a beer every once in a while, I wouldn’t be so uptight. I admit I played
the cancer card that night. I was
“You don’t think I’m being nice?” she said.
“No, I mean…That’s not what I meant, I said it wrong.”
She laughed then. She was just yanking my chain. I loved the sound of her
laugh.
“I think you’re nice,” I said.
“I’m a wonderful person,” she said with a grin.
CHAPTER
SEVEN
MOLLY
“So, is this a real date?” Megan asks me that every
time I see Brock. We have been hanging out a lot for the past month or so, but
each time she asks me that I say, “No, Meggs . We’re
still just hanging out.” She grins at me, like she knows something that I don’t
know. Maybe she does. There are a lot of things I don’t know. I mean, I did
tell her that I didn’t even want to meet this guy in the first place. Now I
look forward to his phone calls and even to the times I go over to his
apartment and help him with his homework. Sometimes he even helps me with mine.
He’s very “right-brained” and I’m not. I work from the left side of my brain
almost always. If it doesn’t have a logical equation, I’d prefer to not have
anything to do with it. So, when I have to draw an abstract sketch in art
class, Brock is my man. Well, not my man, more like the man. Anyways, he’s
awesome with creative stuff and I’m better at the logical things like math and
science. Maybe together we make one brain?
Are we dating though? It’s still a no. That one brain
thing isn’t like two hearts make a whole. I’m sure every two people who work
well together are like that. But it’s not dating. We don’t hold hands, although
the one night we danced at the club and he held my hands and pulled me in
close, I have to admit I had a hard time catching my breath. He looked down at me;
like he was afraid I was going to pull away. I did think about it, but I didn’t
want to. It felt…comfortable, so I stayed there until the song was over and we
went back to our table. We held hands for the dance, but we don’t walk around
holding hands.
Another thing that proves we’re just hanging out and
not dating is that we have never kissed. Megan and Jake are dating, and they do
an awful lot of kissing. So much it kind of makes me sick sometimes. I mean,
there is such a thing as too much PDA, am I right?
Have I thought about kissing him? Oh, yeah, I’ve
thought about it. That night when we were dancing, sometimes when he leans in
close while we’re working on our homework, or in the middle of Benny and Joon last weekend when he quoted Joon ,
“Having a Boo Radley moment are we?” I mean really, what nineteen-year-old guy
knows Benny and Joon that well? It’s one of my
favorite movies; Grandma and I used to watch it together all the time. That one
and Untamed Heart . I think I would
have to kiss him if he quoted Marissa Tomei, “He doesn’t make sense. I don’t
make sense. Together we make sense.” Yeah, I’d probably kiss him full on the
lips for that one… Maybe I’ll rent it next week…Anyways, I’m pretty sure that
the fact we’ve never kissed still means we’re not dating.
“He’s taking you on a haunted train ride for
Halloween. That’s pretty romantic for a couple that’s not dating,” Megan was
still going on. I sometimes wonder if Megan wishes she was dating Brock.
“It just sounds like fun,” I said. It’s Halloween.
What are we going to do, trick or treat? Go to some lame sorority or fraternity
costume party? I found out, since we’ve been hanging out so much together, that
Brock doesn’t drink either. The fact that he stays on a really strict diet and
doesn’t drink alcohol helps me out a lot. That’s what happened with my first
and last college boyfriend. They were the same guy. He kept taking me to
parties and I finally told him I didn’t want to go to anymore parties where the
main focus was the keg in the middle of the room. He told me that maybe if I
had a beer every once in a while, I wouldn’t be so uptight. I admit I played
the cancer card that night. I was
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