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“Okay, so what happens then?” Chloe asks.
“I don’t know. This is a one-day-at-a-time operation.” I shrug.
Chloe, Rebecca, and I are having coffee to strategize my disaster of a love life.
“So let me get this straight,” Rebecca replies. “You told him that you don’t want anything but sex, but you secretly do, and he agreed to it.”
“Correct.” I nod as I sip my coffee. I think for a moment. “But now he’s pissed that Mason is hanging around, so he thought he would play games and arrange a double date with Taryn and me and him.”
They both frown. “What?”
“The man is the biggest smart-ass I know.” I roll my eyes. “And the hottest.”
“Good?” Rebecca asks.
“Ridiculous.”
“So what’s this about a double date?”
“After the bonfire Henley came over to my house, and I was pissed about him talking to Taryn all night.”
Rebecca cuts me off. “Rightly so.”
“Me and him are getting into it over that, and he tells me I have no right to be jealous and being all righteous, and he was pissing me off. Then in the middle of our fight, Mason turns up, and Henley hid in the cupboard under the stairs.”
Chloe frowns as she listens. “Right . . .”
“Mason asks me out, and I know Henley can hear everything we are saying, and I was still angry with him after his I-can’t-be-jealous-over-Taryn comment, so I said yes with no intention of actually going. But then Henley saw him and to one-up me, he organized a double date with Taryn,” I blurt out in a rush.
“Jeez, this is getting complicated,” Rebecca replies as she holds her temples.
“Oh, you think?” I stammer. “This is one colossal fuckup.”
“It’s too soon. You don’t have him locked in enough yet to be going on double dates with other people. What happens if Taryn makes a move on him? And we know she will. What are you going to do then? Are you going to kiss Mason to get him back?” Chloe says.
I drag my hand down my face as I consider this possibility. “True. I hadn’t even thought of that.”
“And what happens if this Mason thing gets all too hard and Henley thinks ‘fuck it’ and walks away and does actually go for Taryn? He’s got baggage, remember, and you are at a very fragile point in this relationship,” Rebecca replies.
“It isn’t even a relationship yet.” I put my head in my hands. “Ugh, you’re completely right. I didn’t think this through at all. Why am I such a smart-ass?”
“I know what to do,” Chloe says. “Put the date off for a while. Don’t say never, but pretend to have things on this weekend. That way you will get some more time with him alone, but he still knows it may happen in the future.”
“Yes,” Rebecca gasps. “Perfect. That way he’s still on notice of you trading him in.”
I roll my eyes. “Henley James would never be traded in.”
“Don’t let him know that.”
“Okay, I think this could work.” I look over to Rebecca. “What’s going on with John, anyway? Anything new happen?”
“He’s going on a golfing weekend with the boys in a few weeks.” She widens her eyes.
“Do you think he is?”
“Who fucking knows, but I figure that I’m not getting laid, so someone else must be. He’s too highly sexed to just go cold turkey like this.”
“You actually think he’s cheating?” I ask.
