“Then why did it happen again?”
“I already told you: we had dinner, I brought dessert…”
“And the night before, you saved her from an embarrassing encounter, took her home, kissed her…”
Why the hell did I tell him everything?
“Then the next day you turn up at her door with dinner from her favourite restaurant. Come on, man – you even brought her a chocolate dessert!”
“What has chocolate got to do with it?”
“I don’t want to keep repeating myself, but how the fuck did you manage to get all those women?”
“At this point, I have no idea, either.”
“You gave her all the signs, mate.”
“Do you think?”
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned about women, it’s that they pick up on everything, question every little detail. And if she slept with you, again…”
“Maybe she just wanted one more night.”
“One night is fine, Kerry. But two? And dinner? …That all seems like something more.”
“I didn’t come here for you to put these thoughts in my head.”
“What did you expect me to say? That you did well to just disappear again the next day?”
“Yeah.”
“And how didyoufeel, leaving like that?”
“I don’t know. Weird.”
“Weird?”
“Guilty.”
Tyler crosses his arms and looks at me, his gaze serious. “You like her.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
“You’re way off.”
“You’re lying to yourself.”
“I don’t like her. I’m not…interested. Not in the way you’re implying.”
“I’m not implying anything. I’m just telling you what I see, and unfortunately, I’m right this time. You like the headmistress.”
I scoff nervously.
“You’ve spent twenty years out looking for something better, yet you’ve ended up exactly where you started, chasing after the school nerd.”
“Firstly, I don’t chase anyone.”
