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“God no,” Ollie spat the words out, closing her eyes to stop from saying anything else. “I mean, no thank you. I am more than capable of finding my way.”
“Right, okay.”
“Thanks for dinner, Joseph. I hope you find the woman you’re looking for eventually.”
He frowned, “Did you not have a good time tonight?”
“Are you kidding me?” Ollie scoffed.
“I was actually going to ask you out again.”
Ollie stepped away from Joseph and shook her head, “Why do you want to take me out again? You spent the last half of our dinner judging my life choices.”
“I didn’t judge, I feel like you could be doing so much more.”
“But that’s not up to you. I love what I do and I wouldn’t change it for anyone else.”
“Don’t you want more out of life?” Joseph genuinely looked confused.
“Like what? Become a rocket scientist?”
“For example, yeah.”
Ollie blew out a breath and held her hands together as she looked at Joseph properly, “I’m never going to be the good Indian wife you or your family want. I hope you find her, though. Because you deserve to be happy and be in love, but it can’t be me.”
“Oleander, don’t…”
She held one hand up,hatingthe way her name sounded on his lips, “Thank you, Joseph. You picked a great restaurant, but our relationship…ourfriendshipends here.”
Joseph started to open his mouth to speak, but Ollie shook her head and turned around, walking away from him as she dug out her keys.
As she slid into her car, Ollie found texts from her grandmother about more boys coming into town to see her. One even requested she fly out to some small town in California to see him instead of him coming to her. The drive home took her an hour and the whole time, Ollie was thinking about how she had fallen for this bullshit again.
Walking into her apartment, Ollie groaned when her phone started ringing.Baby Callingappeared on her screen, accompanied by the most adorable picture of her and her grandmother from when she was a kid. Ollie shrugged off her jacket and answered, putting her grandmother on loudspeaker as she went about getting ready for bed.
“How is Joseph?”
“Self-centered and looking for a good Indianhousewife.”
Babytskedlike Ollie was being ridiculous, “Once he gets to know you, he will understand housewives are not important.”
“Ammachi, we know I’m not the kind of girl these guys need.”
“No such thing. I sent you more biodatas and let me know how the meetings go.”
Ollie stripped off her dress as Baby hung up and collapsed backwards onto her bed, her head pounding from all these ridiculousdatesher grandmother kept setting her up on.
