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I can already tell where she’s headed with this, and my energy right now is way too low to consider that kind of craziness, never mind agree to it.
“I’m not switching places with you just because you lost a bet, Scar.”
“We’re not going to get in trouble this time, Saph. All that would happen is you’d get a chance to relax and get over that cheating asshole while you do something you love to do anyway.”
“I have work to think about,” I remind her.
“I know,” she says. “I can take care of that stuff for you. That’s kind of how this whole switching thing works, Sis.”
She probably could. Article writing is a little different than song writing, but Scarlett took some of the same classes I did to get her degree. She would know what she was doing.
“It’s not a normal week for me,” I reveal, closing my arms around my middle.
“So, you’re not about to rush into the office with a deadline to meet?” Scar asks.
“If I was, I’d be late. I have a couple days off,” I confess. “I’m supposed to get on a plane on Saturday. My boss wants me to do one interview that includes travel before she offers me the job I’ve been working toward.”
Scarlett blinks at me. “A plane? Doesn’t she know …”
“She knows. I mean, I think she figured it out herself.”
“That’s fucked up,” she says. “She shouldn’t be trying to force you to do something you have a genuine phobia about, Saph.”
“She’s not forcing me, Scar. She told me she wants to give me the job, but that I have to do this, just once, before she can give it to me. It’s one thing. One little thing.”
I’m trying to talk myself into being okay with it as I attempt to convince my twin that it’s fine.
I don’t think it’s really working.
Scarlett looks annoyed, but then her annoyance melts into excitement.
“Oh, my God, Saph,” she murmurs. “This is actually perfect.”
I blink at her. “Perfect?”
“I can take that flight for you, and you can clean that house for me.”
She’s beaming back at me as I let the idea sink in.
“I don’t know, Scar. It’s been so long since we did something like that, and this … It isn’t nothing.”
“There are no bad consequences to this, Saph. You get the chance to recover from your breakup, and I don’t have to put up with the humiliation of losing a bet to my dumb, boring neighbors. It’s a win-win situation.”
“If something bad happens …” I start, frowning at her.
“Nothing bad is going to happen,” she assures me, too quickly. “What’s the flight itinerary?”
“I need to switch on my laptop to check, but you’d have to be gone for a week.”
“Ooh, a week on location. Is it just one interview?”
“Just one,” I tell her.
“Well, don’t keep me in suspense,” she says. “Who are we interviewing?”
This is it now. I know the second I admit who I’m supposed to interview that there’s no way Scarlett will drop the idea to switch places for the week.
Would it really be a bad thing?
