The Idea of You
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“What do you feel when you look at it?” “Everything.”
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“Daniel is going to lose his mind.” “Yes, well, Daniel fucked up, didn’t he?”
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“So…” He sat back, opening his menu. “Fancy a tea?”
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And then the door would close and the Taylor Swift would begin. We were not yet out of the woods.
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He kissed me. In front of his parents, he kissed me. And part of me wanted to crawl under the fucking booth and die.
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“I’m trying to make you laugh. I’m sorry. I know you didn’t sign up for this…” “I signed up for lunch.”
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was just making sure it was you, and not the idea of you.”
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“How did we get here?” I heard myself say. “This was only supposed to be lunch, remember? This was only ever supposed to be lunch.”
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These little messages that would paralyze me. And to which I resisted responding. Because I had made a choice.
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And then one day, they stopped.