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"Oh…okay. Where? Here?" I ask. "Did they postpone your exhibition?"
She shakes her head. "Nope. Nothing of the sort. And I'm not staying in your house. We might be friends, but I know how much you love your space. I am staying in the city to be with Caleb."
My jaw hits the ground with the force of a blacksmith's hammer. "What? Why? And which Caleb? The one I know?"
Mira gets up and dances around the room, clutching the throw pillow to her chest. I stare at her in confusion until she stops in front of me.
"Have you ever fallen in love at first sight?"
I nod. "Yeah. With certain food, some jobs, definitely not a man I met last night."
My best friend shrugs. "It doesn't matter if we just met last night. What matters is that we spent the night together, and when I woke up this morning, I was confident he was the one for me. So, when he asked if I wanted to spend the week with him, I said yes.”
“But I realized," She takes my hand. "I didn't want to be with him for just one week. One week is too short. I want to stay as long as possible. That's why I will find a place in the city, close to where he lives so that we can be together forever."
I let her be done with her daydreaming before stepping forward and placing a hand on her forehead.
"You're not running a fever. Did you hit your head?"
"No. Why?"
I throw my hands up. "Uhm, I don't know. Maybe because you're planning a future with a man you barely know?"
Mira pouts as she brings her face closer to mine. "Don't you trust him? You said so last night."
"I didn't say I—"
"So, he's a terrible person?" She sounds defeated.
There's no way out when it comes to Mira. You're either all in or all out and although she will not hold it against me if I choose the latter, I don't want to burst her happy bubble. Then there's the fact that Caleb is a gentleman sent from above if your yardstick is Gabriel Everhart.
"Are you sure he wants the same thing?" I voice my only doubt. "Or something serious?"
She nods. "Yup. I may have slipped and told him I liked him, and he said he liked me too. That's why he asked me to stay the week with him. Aren't you happy for me?'
"I am."
I really am, no matter how unsure my mind is of the entire thing.
"And you," Mira eyes me, "you said your boss is a terrible man, yet you were dancing with him last night with so much—"
"So much what?" I cut in. "I only did that so he would leave me alone. The man has a way of getting under my skin."
Mira's gaze remains on me as she backs up towards the couch. "You like him," she says after a brief silence.
Shaking my head firmly in staunch disagreement, I go to sit down. "No, I do not."
An impish smile creeps onto her lips. "Yes, you do. In all the years that we've been friends, no one has gotten under your skin like this. Not even me, and I can be very annoying at times."
My mouth lifts a bit as I shrug, and then I catch myself. "No," I wave my hands. "I was agreeing to the part where you said you're annoying."
Mira throws her head back in laughter. "You can lie to yourself, but you cannot fool me. You wouldn't let someone bully you into dancing with them if there wasn't something more to it. How you like a person might differ from how I like Caleb, darling. Don't knock it until you've tried it."
"I don't like him," I reject her theory vehemently.
If Gabriel and I were the last two people on earth, and he saved me from a shark attack and then mended my wounds, I still wouldn't like him.
And you don't have to like a person to be sexually attracted to them, right?
