“Why can’t you admit how ecstatic you are?”
“Cause it’s confusing.”
“What?”
“Well, obviously we had the most amazing weekend together.”
“Uh-huh.”
“But it’s more complicated than that.”
“How?”
“I don’t know how to explain it.”
She cocked her hip out with her head and stared at me. “Try.”
“This is going to sound so stupid.”
“I can handle it.”
“It feels like there’s been a death.”
She narrowed her eyes at me. “A death?”
“Yeah, like something’s died.”
“I know what death is, thanks.”
I shrugged.
“But I don’t see what it has to do with you and Aiden finally hooking up.”
“What I mean is, I know whatever’s ahead of us will be new and exciting, but whatever we had is dead.”
“Are you sure it hasn’t just evolved? Or mutated? Like Wolverine?”
I furrowed my brow.
“Ya know? Cause what you had before was strong and you wouldn’t mess with it, but now what you have is even more intense and way hotter?”
I laughed. “I like that.”
“It beats your death analogy anyway.”
“Or my fairground one.”
“What’s that one?”
“Ya know that theme park ride where the little room spins so fast that you stick to the wall when the floor drops out from under you?”
“The Rotor Ride.”
“It has a name?”
“Yeah.”
“Anyway, I always thought that was great as a kid and then one day they said I couldn’t go on it anymore.”