catdad_93: they did look it, but I thought maybe that was just your photography skills
“Look at you!” Dante said. “Look at the smile on your face. Seattle isn’t so far away, you know. No one says you couldn’t head up for the weekend. Grab a few drinks. Have the really hot, fulfilling sex you deserve to be having…”
The alarm on my phone went off, and I’d never been so grateful for it in my entire life.
“Oh no, look at the time,” I said, setting Luna down on Dante’s lap to join her foster-siblings and standing up. “I promised I’d take Dawn’s trash out for her and now it’s time to do that. Guess we’ll have to cut this conversation about my sex life short.”
“This is just a postponement,” Dante called after me. “You’re in desperate need of some vitamin D and I’m gonna make sure you get it.”
2
MILO
catdad_93: Starbucks? Really?
I chuckledas I sipped my vanilla-caramel whipped cream abomination of a coffee and winced at how over-sweetened it was. Maybe I hadn’t neededthatmuch sugar to disguise the four shots of crappy espresso in it after all.
starving.in.seattle: I’ve been on the road since six, it’s Starbusk or driving off the edge of a cliff
starving.in.seattle: *Starbucks
starving.in.seattle: see?
A seagull squawked at me as I took a picture of the choppy grey Atlantic to send to Zara. Not that she’d never seen it before, but she hadn’t seen it from the parking lot of a gas station Starbucks perched on a cliffside in the middle of nowhere. That had to be something.
My phone rang before I could even get it in my pocket, and I answered it without hesitation, shoving my earbuds in so I’d be able to hear her over the wind.
“Scenic,” Zara said. “Meet any cute boys yet?”
I snorted. Of course that was her first question.
“I’m still on the road.”
catdad_93: please don’t drive off the side of a cliff
catdad_93: who’ll take sexy donut pics for me if not you?
starving.in.seattle: I promise to do my best not to
“There are boys on the road,” Zara said. “You could meet a cute boy with a flat tire.”
“And do what? Sympathise while we both wait for someone who knows how to change one to show up?”
Zara snorted. “You’re so painfully gay.”
catdad_93: good
“Says the woman who just abandoned me to live in New York with her new girlfriend.”
“I know how to change a flat tire,” Zara said. “Lesbian competence.”
catdad_93: if you’re ever in town I’m taking you for real coffee
“Milo?” Zara asked. “You still there?”
I’d gone quiet. I’d gone quiet because…
starving.in.seattle: it’s a date
