You Deserve Each Other

by Sarah Hogle

“I don’t really care what you want, to be honest. I don’t like you again yet. But I’m going to. And you’re going to like me again, too. This house is going to save us.”

“I thought this would be a nice surprise. I thought you’d love it. Just like with the flowers you complained I never get for you. But then when I do get you flowers, you SET THEM ON FIRE.”

People who wake up looking glamorous can’t be trusted.

“She’ll find something,” Nicholas inserts smoothly. “We’re waiting for the right fit. Can’t just accept any old job that’ll have her—especially at businesses that will probably be closed within a year.”

“You deserve each other.”

“The dress is made to fit Naomi,” he snaps. “She isn’t made to fit the dress.

“I think you’re lovesick,”

“But you still haven’t said you love me.” “That’s not true.” “You haven’t.” “I say it all the time, I just say it very, very quietly. I tell you when you’re in another room, or right after we hang up the phone. I tell you when you’ve got headphones on. I say it after you shut the door behind you. I say it in my head every time you look at me.”