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Nico's smile seemed a little sad, but also a little hopeful. He wandered out of the house.
I waited a few minutes, standing there in the kitchen thinking about my life, the mistakes I'd made, the two men who wanted me. Was I a fling for Ollie? His ex-girlfriend wanted him back. They had history, while I was just the crazy girl who'd fainted in his arms.
Was fate trying to tell me something? If so, I had no idea what.
Finally, I went outside and looked for Ollie. I spotted him at the far end of the lawn with Damian---and the Kitten Brigade. They all seemed to be playing charades, so I walked over there.
The girl who had been making gestures to depict who-knew-what finished up right as I got to the group.
"How was that the Eiffel Tower?" Damian asked. "You looked like an uptight whooping crane."
Ollie snorted. "Like you've ever seen a whooping crane."
"I did see one. In a PBS documentary."
"Yeah, right." Ollie rolled his eyes. "The day you watch PBS is the day I join a monastery."
Ollie noticed me, smiled, and waved for me to come over to where he and Damian sat on the grass. I settled onto the ground beside him, my knees tucked under me.
He leaned in to whisper, "How'd it go?"
I shrugged.
"It's Heidi's turn!" one of the girls shouted.
Heidi trotted up to the spot the other girl had just vacated, positioned directly in front of the crowd. Another girl handed her a folded slip of paper. Heidi opened it and read whatever was written on the paper. Her brows crinkled, her nose too.
Must've been a hard one.
She crumpled the paper and tossed it into a large paper cup that seemed to be acting as a trash can. I could see other crumpled papers inside it.
Heidi began to pantomime. She waved her arms and tipped sideways, raising one foot off the ground.
Ollie watched her with a rapt expression.
A beautiful, naked woman showing off her body in front of her ex-boyfriend, the man I was currently sleeping with? No, that didn't bother me at all.
In the kitchen with Nico, I'd wondered if I should take him back. Now, I was jealous of Ollie ogling Heidi. I finally understood the concept of being torn between two men. Or maybe I was just crazy, like most people thought.
Heidi waved her arms with more enthusiasm, tipping left and right, making her breasts bounce.
Damian made a catcall.
The other girls clapped and shouted out silly things like, "You're a drunk astronaut!"
Ollie kept staring at Heidi, his lips parted and curved into a relaxed smile.
"Don Quixote," I called out.
Everyone froze and fell silent. All eyes turned to me.
Heidi's face blanked. "Wow, that's right. How did you know?"
"You were making like a windmill and tilting. Don Quixote tilted at windmills."
Heidi blinked several times, still seeming shocked. "You're really smart, Mara."
"Um, thanks."
