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“Hello.” He glanced down at the basket of laundry in my hands. “I can remove my stuff if you want to wash yours first,” he offered.
“Oh, no. It’s fine.” I waved him off. “I can wait. Actually, I’m glad I crossed paths with you. I was hoping I could ask you something.”
“Shoot.”
“Will you do dinner with Jeff and me? He wants to reintroduce himself formally. Soberly. That way, you’ll see that he’s not as awful as he presented himself to be that first time.”
“First impressions are hard to forget.”
“Yes, but a lot of people are bad at first auditions. That’s why there are callbacks.”
“Okay.”
I arched an eyebrow. “What?”
“I said okay. I’ll do it.”
“Really?” I asked, shocked. That was much easier than I thought it would be.
“If that’s what you need to be comfortable in this situation, then I will do it.”
“It’s mostly for his comfort, which is important to me. So, yes. His comfort makes me comfortable.”
“What makes you comfortable outside of others?”
I narrowed my eyes. “What do you mean?”
“Never mind.”
“No—”
“Never mind, Stella,” he said in a definitive tone. That gave me enough reason not to push, especially since I was already preparing to ask for another request.
“Right. Okay. Also, there’s one more thing.” I clasped her hands together and prayed Damian wouldn’t snap at me. “It’s kind of a double date if you’re okay with that?”
“I’m not okay with that.”
“I knew you wouldn’t be. Okay.” I began walking away but turned back toward him. “It’s just… Jeff thinks there’s something going on between us.”
“There’s nothing going on between us.”
“I know that, and you know that, but Jeff doesn’t know that.”
“He doesn’t trust you?”
“No. He doesn’t trust you.”
“What do I have to do with your relationship’s trust?”
“Nothing.” I shook my head. “He’s insecure, that’s all.”
He kept quiet, but I could tell his mind had many, many thoughts. I wasn’t certain I wanted to hear them because they probably weren’t positive.
I bit my bottom lip. “I’ll pay you ten dollars if you do the double date,” I spat out.
He let out a huff. “You think I’m that easy?”
“No. I’m just that desperate. Jeff seems to be really upset about you and me living together and—”
