“Can’t sleep?” I asked, before gulping loudly.
“No.”
“Me neither. But—”
I moistened my lips and tapped on my abs with my fingertips.
“What, James?”
Her tone suddenly got irritated.
“I know a way to make you sleep well, Snow White.” And she didn’t think twice about answering curtly.
“No.”
“But you didn’t even let me talk—”
“No, James.”
I burst out laughing at the umpteenth refusal. She seemed like a kid, but she said it decisively.
Maybe she wasn’t as innocent as she wanted to make me believe. Maybe she knew that there was only one way to make me persist, and that was saying no to me.
“No what?”
“No to any perverse thing you want to suggest.” Perverse? Listen to her.
“What do you know?”
“I know you’re calling me at midnight half wasted just to ask if I can’t sleep. Right? Do you think I’m an idiot?”
“Sort of.” I chuckled. “Yeah, I called you just about that. So what?”
“So I’m too sober to listen to you.”
Of course, deviously remind me that you smoked yesterday.Listen to her, she was already anticipating it.
“Then you act—” she whispered all of a sudden.
“What? Tell me.”
“Like this. Like everything is normal, James.”
She made me smile, maybe because June always said the first thing that came to her head. Everyone I knew just pretended to find the best thing to say. She didn’t. I was jealous of her spontaneity.
“I still don’t understand what it is that I do, princess. Can you be a little more specific?”
“I want you to delete my photo,” she exclaimed, getting right to the point.
“I can delete it, but you know that you can’t see anything, right?” I murmured.
“I don’t care. Delete it.”
“Okay. I’ll delete it. But what does that have to do with it? Do you think I called you to jerk me off?”
“James!” she screamed, embarrassed. I smiled, biting my lip. “Besides, could you blame me if I thought that? You act like that!”
She wasn’t stupid. She wanted to know if the reason I called was neutral or not.
