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hours, maybe you should consider
changing your perspective."
     
    "I'm
listening," I said. My eyes darted around to see if anyone was listening,
but apparently we were surrounded by very decisive people who knew exactly what
they wanted to watch. 
     
    "Well,
let's say he had shown up last night."
     
    "Yeah."
     
    "How
would this moment be any different?"
     
    "Well, I
would be sexually satisfied instead of frustrated for one."
     
    "You'll
be home to your vibrator soon enough."
     
    My eyes
flashed wide. Were you even allowed to say that word on planes? "And I
wouldn't feel like a hideous reject."
     
    She laughed in
my face. "First of all, you're not a hideous reject. If you recall, despite
what happened last night, he came crawling back this morning. Have you
forgotten that?"
     
    "No."
     
    "That
means you won."
     
    I let my head
fall back against my seat. "I don't feel like a winner."
     
    "That's
because your emotions aren’t rational. If I were you, I'd be delighted just
knowing that I got under his skin enough to leave an impression."
     
    "I don't
know."
     
    "Seriously,
in a way I envy you."
     
    It was my turn
to laugh. "For what?"
     
    "A week
from now, Matteo won't even remember my name, much less what I look like."
     
    "That's
not true."
     
    "Trust
me, it is," she said. "But I don't mind cause I was using him,
too."
     
    "Maybe."
     
    "No I was,"
she insisted. "But that's okay because even love that isn't true gives you
something fun to do."
     
    "I
suppose."
     
    "And
didn't you have fun with Jack?"
     
    "Yeah."
     
    "And wasn't
the whole point of the trip to get away and do something fun- or someone- if we
were really lucky?"
     
    "I
suppose."
     
    "So why
can't you just be happy that you had a fling with a sexy millionaire in a
beautiful place and that the relationship ended before you ever had to see his
skid marks."
     
    "I don't
think Jack's the kind of guy who has skid marks."
     
    "Don't be
ridiculous. Of course he does. And it's just an analogy, Audrey. I'm not
accusing him of leaving shit stains-"
     
    I
winced. 
     
    "-in his
boxers," she said, lowering her voice when the woman in front of us turned
and looked through the seats at us. "All I'm saying is he's not perfect. And
if you keep putting him up on this pedestal like he's the one that got away,
you're going to make yourself crazy."
     
    I nodded. 
     
    "Everything
happens for a reason," she said. "You need to believe that and not
question it."
     
    "I do
believe it.”
     
    "Good.
Cause how you met him was totally fortuitous, right?"
     
    "It was,
yeah."
     
    "So just
trust that things ended the way they were supposed to as well."
     
    "Maybe you’re
right."
     
    "Like I
know we're at that age where we're supposedly wasting our time if we spend it with
a man who isn't potentially going to put a ring on it, but that doesn't apply
to what happens on vacation."
     
    I pursed my
lips. 
     
    "You met
a guy. You had a great time. The end," she said. "You know yourself
there's rarely a happily ever after. The fact that you were happy during your
time together is a gift. You should cherish it, not regret it."
     
    "I
know."
     
    "Besides,
what's done is done. It's too late to change anything now so just smile because
it happened and all that."
     
    "I
suppose it is better to have loved and lost."
     
    "There
you go. That's the spirit."
     
    "Thanks,"
I said, forcing a pitiful smile. 
     
    "Did that
not help at all? Do you really not feel any better?"
     
    "No,"
I lied. "I do. You're right. I should forget about it. It was fun while it
lasted, and that was the whole point. If anything, it was probably the most
successful relationship I've had in years."
     
    "It
wasn't a relationship, Audrey. It was three dates. It was a fling. Who knows? Maybe
the whole reason Jack came into your life was to keep you from getting blood
poisoning from that coral and the rest was just an awesome bonus."
     
    I
nodded. 
     
    "Plus, he
got your mind off Emmett