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and tonight I’m learning to sew so I can make voodoo dolls and slowly stab them with sewing pins.
For what it’s worth, you wouldn’t be breaking any rules to message me a different day. You can email me anytime. C.
Love, T.
xo T.
Ahhh. I even set an alarm for midnight, but I slept right through that flimsy bitch.
(yes, this is team slander and I welcome trash talking in response).
From: t.sol18@email.com To: c.sun16@email.com Date: February 14, 2022 Subject: Re: Look who’s back on top This is going to be forward, but I’ve gotta shoot my shot: Will you be home at all this summer? If so, do you want to meet up? (If you have a girlfriend, tell me because in the interest of full disclosure, I have had a little crush on you for years now and am basically asking you out on a date.) (I will also immediately panic once I send this email.)
From: c.sun16@email.com To: t.sol18@email.com Date: February 14, 2022 Subject: Re: Look who’s back on top Okay well I know what you mean about having a crush because I’ve sort of had the same What If thought a few times. But I’m so sorry, T. I would love to meet you, but I do have a girlfriend and agree that if we did connect in person, it would inevitably feel like a date. I do hope you have a very happy Valentine’s Day, though, and will still be getting dumplings tonight as tradition requires. Until next year? Yours, C.
Damn it!
Chapter Eleven FEBRUARY 14, 2024 From: t.sol18@email.com To: c.sun16@email.com Date: February 14, 2024 Subject: Happy Valentine’s Day! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY, FAVORITE From: c.sun16@email.com To: t.sol18@email.com Date: February 14, 2024 Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day! Hey! Happy Valentine’s Day. What are you up to? From: t.sol18@email.com To: c.sun16@email.com Date: February 14, 2024 Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day! My roommate and friend are dragging me to a party. I broke up with the bf a couple weeks ago, and there’s a non-Valentine’s thing at the house of a friend of a friend or
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FINALLY!
(alternately studying and rereading C’s email suggesting HE! IS! A! PATIENT! LOVER!)
Terra narrows her eyes at me, suspicious. “You sure it isn’t because I know all about your sexual prowess?”
“We get soup dumplings when we’re thinking about each other.” She was thinking about me.
“Do you ever have a feeling about someone? Like they’re your safe space and, I don’t know, like someday it could be more?” I swallow, nodding. “Yeah. Of course.” I’m looking right at her. “I have a feeling about him.” But the thing is, when she looks up at me and our eyes lock, I’m pretty sure she has a feeling about me, too.
“You like a hermit who can’t handle her alcohol?” I like the way he tilts his face back when he laughs.
I look down at my phone. He’s created a new contact with his number. The Hot TA. Oh my God.
C . . . my hands are shaking right now. I am freaking the hell out. I live in Philly, too. And I think you know that. He replies with a phone number. And when I enter it into a text box, an existing contact pops up on-screen. The Hot TA.
It’s my soup-dumpling buddy. It’s my conundrum wrapped in a mystery tied with a puzzle shoved in a pickle jar.
He walks around the hood and sees me at the same time I see the cupcake box in his hand. Forget flowers; give me a cupcake and it’s a perfect date.
HE FUCKING REMEMBERED 😭😭😭
“I don’t normally kiss before the first date,” I tell him. “But you’re the exception to the rule.”
I win. I love you.
Are we still going to be emailing each other from the same couch on Valentine’s Day in fifty years?
Without question.
😭😭😭 IT'S SO CUTE
