I couldn’t be thinking about *gulp* forever.
So, being a mature adult, I’ve chosen to deflect. To annoy. To keep her as far away as possible. And boy was it working. I got under her skin. Whenever she looks at me, she wants to murder me. Whenever I look at her, I think... well, she’s hot, but she wants to murder me, therefore, stay away.
And like I said, it worked. It worked so fucking well... until it didn’t anymore.
You can ONLY imagine what happens next...
ChapterOne
KELSEY
Meant to Be Podcast
Alec and Luna
Kelsey:Welcome, listener, to theMeant to Be Podcast, where we talk to madly-in-love couples about the way they met. Alec and Luna, thank you so much for joining me today.
Alec:Our pleasure. Luna could not stop raving about you.
Luna:Guilty. I’m obsessed with this podcast.
Kelsey:Thank you so much. So then, you must know how we run things over here. The intro is you two giving us a quick rundown on your meet-cute. Think you can do it?
Luna:We can.
Alec:She made me practice.
Kelsey:Ha-ha. Well then, take it away. How did you two become meant to be?
Luna:My brother got engaged to his boyfriend and they couldn’t afford a big, fancy wedding, so I signed him up for a DIY wedding show calledThe Wedding Game.
Alec:My brother, Thad, was a groomzilla and wanted to win the grand prize at the end of the show, an apartment overlooking Central Park, and laid a guilt trip to force me to help.
Luna:First day of shooting, Alec assumed I was a PA and demanded I get him coffee.
Alec:Asked, not demanded. Let’s keep things straight, but, yes, I did. And you can imagine how the little spitfire next to me reacted.
Luna:I had it out for him. He was the competition and he was going down.
Alec:I didn’t care about the competition at all and was counting down the days until it was done. Then I realized what a bad brother I was being and how sad Thad was, so... I put in the effort.
Luna:Effort meant following me around a baking store so he could learn how to bake a cake.
Alec:I knocked over some nuts, and she helped me pick them up and found me out. She took pity on me and showed me how to bake a cake to help Thad.
Luna:That day in my apartment changed everything. I didn’t see him as competition. I saw him as a brother trying to make a difference.
Alec:She’s a sucker for family, and so shortly after that, I asked her out.
Luna:We got married last spring.
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“Canyou two stop making out? Honestly, I came here to have dinner with you, not see you lick each other’s faces.”
Lottie pauses and looks over her shoulder. “But he smells so good. Have you smelled him?”
“I haven’t, because he’s not my boyfriend.”
