[12:15]: Good!
[12:15]: Just buying my body weight’s worth of candy at the grocery store
[12:15]: Snacks for my movie marathon tonight?
[12:17]John:Heath Ledger movies, right?
[12:17]: Nope, changed my mind
[12:17]: Nostalgic movies
[12:17]: Although I’ll probably watch A Knight’s Tale
[12:17]: That’s Heath Ledger AND nostalgia
[12:17]: (And yes, I know I’m weird.)
[12:18]John:lol
[12:18]John:sounds fun
I glance up to make sure I’m not holding up the line, then shift my weight from foot to foot. Should I invite him to join me? Or would that be too weird? Normally I would space dates out more. Although that’s because I usually find it kind of tiring being with someone that much. Like I feel that I have to be extra peppy and entertaining or something.
I don’t feel that way with John. Things with him are somehow... different.
[12:20]: You’re welcome to join if you want
[12:20]: Though I will make you watch The Last Unicorn.
I don’t even have time to get properly nervous before John’s answer pops up.
[12:20]John:sure
[12:20]John:sounds good
I grin down at the words.
Easy, I realize. That’s how things are different.
Things with John just feeleasy.
Easy or not, having John inside my house is definitely kind of weird. Not weird in abadway, but it’s just a little bizarre, like seeing a penguin in the desert. I hang back a few steps and watch him wander the living room, his skin bathed in red from the sunset.
He’s super interested in the house and asks me a bunch of questions I don’t know the answers to, like when it was built and if it has a drilled well or a dug well.
“How on earth would I know that?” I say.
“You could’ve asked before you moved in.”
“They’re charging me two hundred dollars a month. The only question I asked was ‘When can I move in?’”
“Two hundred amonth?” He whistles. “That’s insane. This place is incredible.”
“I know, right?” I beam around the living room. “I guess they just wanted someone to look after the place while they were gone.”
“Is that a wood-burning stove?”
“Yep.” I don’t add that I’ve never used it before, because I’m not actually sure I know how to start a fire.
