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Nope. Not a porn movie. A real place.
I took some of the clean plates to put them back into the kitchen cabinets, and I started laughing quietly. With every second I felt my body submitting to the laughter. When it came out of my mouth It.Was.Loud.
I laughed so hard I had to put down everything I was holding and lean on the counter. My shoulders were bouncing up and down. A few seconds later, I managed to at least stop the hysterical laughter and control it to a semi-normal smile. It felt like it was about to slash my face into two, but at least I wasn’t howling now. Isolation did weird things to normal people.
I turned around to face them. They were both looking at me like I was the stupid one.
“I’m sorry. Don’t mind me,” I snorted while suppressing another loud laugh. “Please continue.”
I turned my back again on them. It was hilarious. I couldn’t wait for her to get back from that date, just so I could see her face.
“Where was that exactly?” my mom continued her interrogation.
“It’s in Mecca.”
I burst out laughing. From all the fun places he could take her and really be a good date, that idiot picked up that.
“I’m sorry. I can’t…,” I couldn’t even finish my sentence. “I’m sorry, mom, I can’t”.
I left the kitchen laughing so hard that my father and Troy, who were checking what homework he had for the weekend, both looked at me and smiled, anticipating a good joke.
“What?” Troy asked impatiently with a huge grin on his face.
That only made me laugh even more.
“Banana…banana…,” I tried to answer, but I couldn’t.
“What?” Troy was jumping up and down. Dad looked behind me, and I turned. Mom and Clem were standing there. Mom was smiling.
Clem was looking at me, biting her lower lip, not wanting to show she was laughing with me.
Chapter Fifteen
Clementine
I got back on Saturday night and the whole Cole family was in the living room. Lucas smiled at me.
“How was the date?” he asked with a smug face I wanted to punch.
“Amazing. I’ve never had that much fun.Ever.”
That wasn’t true. Two years ago Matt Pierson took me out for a walk and ice creams, and he made me laugh so much and so hard my face hurt and I almost peed my pants. Twice.
Of course I wasn’t going to say that to Lucas, so I lied and tried to rub my pretend-to-be-perfect date in his handsome face.
It was petty of me, and I knew he probably didn’t care, since he laughed like a maniac yesterday when I said where I was going, but I wanted to ruffle his feathers a bit.
“Best date ever.”
Not that we had a bad time. It was fun. Sort of. Okay, it was dumb but in a fun way. It was perfect to hang out with friends, which was the whole point.
The truth was I came up with that weird museum idea, because I was scared Dylan was planning to take me out on a real date, without actually calling it that. It was true he asked both me and Hannah to go out with him, but when she said she was busy, and he didn’t cancel it, I started feeling uncomfortable.
I strolled over to the kitchen. Lucas followed.
I realized I couldn’t ignore him anymore. At least when he was not ignoring me. The minute he started talking to me, I forgot I wasn’t speaking to him.
“Were there any apes out there? Beside your boyfriend, I mean.”
