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“No.”
Once I calmed down, I had a minute to appreciate her outfit. Holy shit, she was so fucking hot. Her hair was pulled back into a loose braid down her back and she wore this white gauzy dress thing like an escaped nymph. A nymph that enjoyed bodybuilding on the side.
“You look incredible, holy shit.” She did a little twirl and laughed.
“You look hot, Kiri. Seriously.” I’d decided to be daring with a button down that dipped really low, and had foregone a bra to show a little extra skin. My leather shorts hugged my ass and made me feel like a badass. Plus, they had pockets big enough for my phone.
“Thanks,” I said. Echo grinned at me and then pulled me close and stroked my face.
“You’re so sexy, I don’t even want to take you into that restaurant. I want to take you right to the backseat of my car,” she said in my ear, and then kissed me deeply. I stood there, completely under her spell as we made out against my car.
Echo made me feel like kissing was new, something I’d just discovered, and not a thing I’d been doing for years. She pulled away with a groan.
“I want to get you into bed, but I’m also starving.”
As if it heard what she said, my stomach rumbled.
“Sounds like I’m not the only one,” she said, taking my hand. “Come on.”
The restaurant smelled of hot peppers and freshly fried chips. We got seated and both agreed that we needed margaritas.
“Less than two weeks of school and I’ll be free for the summer,” Echo said, raising her frosty glass. I clinked it with mine, trying not to slop the frozen drink over the side. I’d have to be careful not to get wasted on this thing.
“Cheers to that,” I said. “What do you do when you’re not in school?”
“I do random catering jobs, like for weddings and stuff, and then I sell my dollhouse furniture and pick up odd jobs here and there. Sometimes I weed gardens. I like to be outside in the summers, and if I get paid while doing it? That’s even better.”
I found her completely fascinating. Way more fascinating than I was.
“When was your last relationship?” I asked as I chomped down on the complimentary chips and salsa.
Echo used a spoon to put just the right amount of salsa on a chip. “Uh, two years ago? It was brief. Just weren’t right for each other. You?”
I told her that my last date had been more than a year ago and my friends had been trying to set me up.
“Mine do that too, all the time. I can’t make them understand that just because someone else is a lesbian, doesn’t mean we’re meant to be together.” That sounded so familiar that I burst out laughing.
“My friends are all queer, but they do the same thing. Do your cheer parents try and set you up?” I found myself leaning closer to her, as if I needed to be as near to her as possible without actually sitting on her lap.
“Oh my god, yes.”
The two of us commiserated about the horrors of being set up until our entrées came, and before I knew what had happened, we’d been talking for nearly three hours. Our serve kept coming to ask if we needed anything else in an effort to turn the table over. Even though it was a Tuesday night, the place was packed.
“I think we’re getting the hint that we should take this somewhere else,” I said, leaning close to her. I was buzzed just enough from the margarita and her cheeks were pink from the alcohol.
“And where might that be?” she said.
“Your place? It’s only fair since you’ve seen mine.”
“Sounds great.”
I agreed to follow her to her house, but she’d also given me the address in case I lost her and needed to use my GPS.
Echo’s place was in a town called Holland, and it was much fancier than Corsica, that was for sure. Probably due to the lab that attracted scientists from all over the world. Echo’s apartment was in a swanky building that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a city, but it was smack dab in the middle of a smallish town.
I parked next to her in the lot and looked up at the building.
“Wow, this is really nice.”
