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“I have to run to FedEx and scan some contracts for my mom,” she says. “I’ll come back.”
“I have a scanner here.”
“Do you have a fax machine?”
“No, but I can go buy one.” I sit up. “There’s plenty of money in my account.”
“Save it for something that’s actually worth it,” she says. “Besides, I already ordered an Uber.”
I kiss her again and sigh. “I could’ve driven you there, Scarlett. You’re not telling me something.”
“If you must know, I would like to go home and shower, and then put on new clothes, because my boyfriend fucked me all night and I’m pretty sure I reek of sex.”
“He doesn’t mind.” I laugh and help her up before I’m tempted to take her again.
“Here,” I give her one of my clean shirts and a pair of sweatpants, and we change together.
Pushing my window open, I help her climb down the fire escape on the side of my house. I wait until the Uber picks her up from my neighbor’s driveway before heading back inside.
“Why is it all the way up there?” Someone wails in the kitchen. “Like who the hell can reach that?”
I round the corner and see my father's latest girlfriend peering into the pantry. She’s wearing a silk slip that leaves little to the imagination, and a cigarette is hanging from her lips.
As of today, she's been dating him for two weeks, and that’s his longest record so far.
“Hey, Easton,” she says.
“Barbara.”
“Can you grab the creamer off the top shelf for me? Oh, and the caramel too.”
“Sure.” I walk closer and get it for her. “Anything else?”
“Your girlfriend is here.”
“Where?”
“I think the question you mean to ask me is, which one?”
“No,” I step back. “‘Where’ is the correct question. Trust me.”
“She brought muffins and broke down in tears, so I'm making us some coffee and telling her that everything is okay.”
“The word ‘where’ usually means a room or a side of the house.”
“I overheard a girl moaning in your room last night.”
“Why were you anywhere near there, if my dad’s room is downstairs?”
“That's not the point.”
“I’m not into older women.”
“And I’m not into boys.” She scoffs. “I know that boys and men don't tend to value monogamy and honesty as much as we women do, but karma eventually will bite all you cheaters in the ass.”
“Thank you, Pastor Barbara.” I smile. “Any more sermons you care to share with me?”
She narrows her eyes as Tully steps into the kitchen.
