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My day is sucking harder than college kids suck a lime when they’re doing tequila shots. Normally I can lose myself in the numbers and monotony of working on my client’s accounts. Not today. Today my mind volleys between the fact I have cancer and the perplexing comment from Oliver before he left last night. I become even more confused when I receive a call from him just before lunch.
“Hello?”
“Remember when we were in high school and you had that yellow bikini with the pink dots on it? You wore it at Chris Henson’s end of summer pool party one year.”
I pause for a moment taken off guard. When my brain catches up, I laugh, “Yes, I remember. You hated that thing. As soon as I walked out of the house I took my cover up off to get into the pool and you ran to me with a towel yelling at me to put some clothes on.”
“We were there with the whole football team! I shared a locker room with those guys! I did not want to hear the shit they would say after they saw you looking like that.”
“Looking like what, exactly?”
“All legs, Remy… all legs and a whole lot of skin.”
“Yeah well, you should have known better than to think I would listen to you.”
“I think I would have been disappointed if you had. That party was horrible. I spent the whole time glaring at anyone that looked at you for too long.”
“You were and still are too over protective.”
“There’s no such thing.” I sigh and he chuckles on the other end of the line and I realize I’m smiling ear to ear. “Do you still have that swimsuit?”
“No, that was so long ago,” I laugh. “Why?”
“Because you’re going to need to pack one in your suitcase. Or get yourself a new one. Hell, get yourself two or three.”
“Care to tell me what you mean by that?”
“I mean, the plans have been arranged, we are going to the beach so pack a suit and sunblock.”
“Care to tell me where exactly we’re going?”
“Nope,” he says and laughs full out this time. The sound is carefree and happy and it makes me giggle. When is the last time I’ve giggled? I don’t even know. It feels good. “I’ll explain tonight, I promise. Until then, I have another question.”
“Okay.”
“How mad will Nate be when you tell him you’re taking time off?”
“I don’t think he’ll be angry at all. At least, I don’t think so. I haven’t taken vacation time in ages and he’s actually told me I need to take a vacation. And the time is as good as it gets, workload-wise, I guess.”
“Well that’s good.”
“Why? What days are you looking at heading out of town? That way I’ll know when to submit my request.”
“Today.”
“Today?”
“Yep, tell him today. Tell him you’ll be gone all next week.” Pure glee leaks through his words, it’s evident in the sound of his voice.
“Next week? You just booked it without asking? That’s hardly any notice at all!”
“No it’s not,” he states with no apology whatsoever.
“Well, crap.”
“Maybe this is a good time to remind you that you’re a partner. I seriously doubt you’ll have a problem.”
“Well, I don’t know that for sure. I still want to run it by Nate.”
