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“Whatcha doin’, Sweet Cheeks?” Adrian catapults himself over the couch, plopping beside me. I pull the blanket over my phone to keep the screen private. Don’t need more reveals.
“I didn’t expect you to be awake so soon.”
“So what you were doing was…not expecting me to be awake? That means you were thinking about me.”
“Don’t flatter yourself by twisting my words. I do a thing called Morning Pages.”
“What’s that?” He tries to peek at my phone but I pull the blanket tighter.
“I write three pages and brain dump everything my mind processed overnight. It’s a way of clearing the slate, deciding what I want to focus on each day.”
“So, you keep a diary.”
“It’s not really a diary. Okay… I guess it sort of is a diary.”
“All right.” He walks across the room, grabs his phone from the charger, then comes back. “How do we do it?”
“Morning Pages?”
“Yeah. I want to do it with you.”
“Why?”
“Let me into your world, Sweet Cheeks.” His voice falters as he says Sweet Cheeks, as if he is forcing himself to use the distancing term.
I could use some distance. His blue eyes and dark eyelashes, award-winning smile, and the heat of his body pressed to my side are doing me in. “Lots of people do it, not just me.”
“Do we get a writing prompt?”
“No.”
“A game plan?”
“No. Just, write whatever’s on your mind and don’t stop until you fill three pages.”
“And then do we swap them or something?”
“You don’t ever share it with anyone. You can do it in notes in your phone or use the app like I do.”
He has me help him find the app and installs it.
I turn sideways on the couch. “Let’s sit back-to-back. I can’t see what you’re writing, you can’t see what I’m writing.”
His back is broad, like I’m leaning into a wall.
“You’re breathing kind of hard back there, sis.”
“Sorry, I guess I’m just catching my breath from you startling me.”
Sitting in silence with him is beautiful but inside my head, I’m a wreck. I haven’t even finished my pages when he leans his head back. I tuck my phone to my chest.
“Got my three pages done, Sweet Cheeks.” His body shifts behind me and I turn to face him.
“You’re really fast.”
“That’s what she said.”
“Oh my gosh. Do you guys ever stop?”
