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“Uh-oh. Do I sense some hesitation?”
“About Eli? No, he’s a good guy. But he’s moving awfully fast.”
He nodded and leaned his elbow on the table, staring at me intently. “In what way?”
“Well, we’ve only known each other less than a week.”
“And that’s a problem for you,” he said, eyeing me carefully.
“It’s…weird.”
“Why?”
“Well…we don’t know each other. He’s talking about me moving to Kansas from Chicago. I have my fish and cat to think about. It’s a huge decision.”
“Huge because you don’t know if Eli’s the one.”
“Huge because…because I don’t know that I want to give up everything and move across the country.”
“It’s only a few states over,” he pointed out.
“Right, but who just packs up and leaves for a man they’ve known less than a week?”
He nodded. “Yes, I see where you’re going with this.”
“Good.”
“You’re chicken.”
I flinched back. “I’m sorry, what?”
“See, it’s really just a location. Let me ask you this, are you happy with your job?”
“Well…it’s a job.”
“And it’s blown up at the moment.”
“There’s that,” I acknowledged.
“And someone tried to kill you there. Strapped a bomb to you from what I heard.”
Yes, there was that. “I guess.”
“And it’s not like this job was going to give you fulfillment for the rest of your life.”
“You don’t know that,” I argued.
“I do, actually. If you were really happy at your job, you would have gushed about that before your goldfish and your cat. That was your first mistake. Then there’s the fact that you haven’t once mentioned anything about needing to get back to work since we’ve been gone.”
“Well…we were sort of floating around in the ocean. I really just wanted to survive.”
“Exactly, and who did you cling to?”
“Eli,” I answered, but I really felt he was missing the whole point of this.
“And when you get back to Chicago, who is the first person you’re going to call?”
“Um…my dad?”
