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“You know, there are people who have no choice but to spend their lives avoiding their mothers. People whose mothers are mean, or toxic, or drunk. People whose mothers hurt them every time they let their guard down.
She knew in that way that other women just know.
She looked at me over the top of her reading glasses. “You would’ve made a goddamned great lieutenant.”
“Nope,” I said. “Love is for girls.” “You are a girl,” Diana pointed out.
She wasn’t letting that stand. “Love is not weak,” she said, like I couldn’t have shocked her more. “It’s the opposite.”
She stood up a little straighter and looked me over like she was really seeing me for the first time all day. Then she said, “Sounds like you just threw down a challenge to the universe, lady.” I narrowed my eyes. “What does that mean?” “It means,” she said, looking a little triumphant, “that you clearly, obviously, any second now, are just about to fall in love.”
“Nobody’s in the sack,” I said, my ears getting a little hot. “Not at the moment, anyway,” Six-Pack said. “Not for a couple of weeks,” the captain advised from the front seat. “Give the poor guy a little time to recover.”
“It didn’t start out as a date,” he said, a little flirty, “but it sure wound up that way in the end.” The guys on the crew started whooping and cheering. I looked down.
