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Hell, I’d spend the day with him anywhere, including at the damn pool even if it was raining. But I won’t share that with him.
Putting on a neutral expression, I say nonchalantly, “I can agree to that.”
I almost kind of want to lose now, but I still have a chance to get something I want if I win.
What should that be?
Tickets to an upcoming Thunder game?
No, I can get those anytime from Arden.
Access to their locker room?
Nah, same deal—Arden can make that happen too.
So, what do I want?
Hmmm, what I’d really like to ask for is for Nils to kiss me.
Just once.
And a really good one at that.
But I can’t say that.
First, I want him to do it on his own, not because he has to.
Yeah, I need the idea to come from him.
Plus, it’d be better if it just sort of happened.
So, sighing, I stick with a boring, safe bet, one I have a feeling will extra-motivate him to win so we can hang at the pool tomorrow.
“If I win,” I say, acting like the idea really excites me, “you have to go clothes shopping with me. Yay, right?”
“Yay?” He grimaces. “More like ‘ugh.’ Is that what you really want?”
I nod decisively. “It is, for sure.”
He sighs as he flips open the pizza box. “Oh hell, I’d better win, then. Let’s get this thing started.”
“You got it.”
As we begin our pizza eat-off, I’m feeling pretty damn smug. Despite my competitive nature urging me to gobble down as many slices as I can, I really don’t care to win.
First, I hate clothes shopping! And second, I want to hang at the pool tomorrow with Nils.
So I throw the challenge.
I eat three slices, and he devours five.
“Looks like I won,” Nils declares victoriously as he tosses a single piece of crust into the empty pizza box.
I don’t push that he should technically be required to eat that too. It doesn’t matter, though, as five beats three.
“Yes…” I take a swig of soda, swallow, and set the plastic bottle down on the coffee table. “You did. You won fair and square.”
With victory in his hands, Nils is so pleased with himself that he tells me I can pick the movie.
