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e booth that Melody had picked
whole time?" she aske
odded. "Jus
ake you work like th
f months ago when I'd first moved to San Diego. She was open, honest, and extroverted, and we had hit
ork late," I said. "I
eyebrows. "Why?" s
I actually enjoy
ty only deepened. "You're a
ords, and she certainly didn't tiptoe around uncomfortable moments. Some might have found her to
ssistant,"
diffe
a differen
y said. "I know the real rea
," I smiled s
r bo
nd Melody let out a burst of lau
.uh... That's
g," she said, g
enial when the waiter appeared between us with two men
asked, leaning in towards hi
ooking, but in a nerdy sort of way. I wouldn't have thought he'd be Melody's type, but I'd long since learned that my friend
tunately not," he said, t
mpletely undeterred. "We
n here," I said. "An
urse,
king affronted. "Does she
g polite, Melod
ked, in a decidedly seductive voic
"No," he said. "You
" she said. "I was just about to pounce on yo
ted out. "I'll h
, but I smiled and ignored her. "A
," the waiter said, with a pointed
, I'll have to go with the mushroom risotto," she said. "
eptionally pleased, and I rolled m
now that subtlety is
neither is
an ever get anything done in this d
d to be in a relati
said, sounding ann
redulously. "You a
morning,"
happ
n while we were having sex this morning, I
ks ago that you though
three we
eally should ha
ing w
you for almost all of those months, and in that time, you've had two
the time," Melod
t the first time around," I said. "But
to become 'the one,'" she explained. "I give them al
believe that?"
ha
such a thing
certainty. "I believe there's a perfect m
ho've been married multiple times and
soul mate," she said easily.
figured out, have
ried by now and living on
"Is that
ed. "Until then, however,
ur soul
ural
live in another country? Maybe he lives on the other side of the w
better gear up for a worl
ad at her. "Y
id accusingly. "Seriously, what is
ow up to see true love a
id, looking at me as th
aughed. "It's just how
our parents had
they were too painful. It was because they weighed me down. The burden of my mother's past was stiff around my shoulders, and there had been moments growi
box when I was seven. I had looked at it so often over the years that it was frayed and worn at the edges, but it still had power over me. Somehow,
rried in the first place. My father was around only sporadically,
istling under her breat
e point is I saw my mother spend the first few years of my childhood being madly in love, and then s
ody said. "Especially if the man
, too," I said before
ha
ean that she was not
ows. "I feel like there
realized that it was stupid to have thought of my father as
ssed not havi
ather," I said, without much emot
"It all make
t do
and love," she said dramatic
eyes. "I'm
e," Melody continued like
hed. "
sed your he
ery single guy I meet may potentially be the love of my life. Some men come into y
ou think your boss fits
y boss," I pointed out. "
y n
he'd probably want nothing to do with me. I didn't say that, however. I
t where I said he is
ing her eyes. "I've slep
lod
third boss was that she was a woman, a
ld write a book abo
ely change the subject," Melody said. "You have
admitted. "Yes, of course
ut
e mixing busines
ed. "Fine then, your boss is off limits and off your
are," I
ng some of them?" Melody demanded. "The right guy
nvenient if he did
d set y
d immediate
y n
on first dates," I sa
es
o have sex on the
fashioned of y
t to wait until I'm comforta
long is that
m...a couple
me as though I had just revealed
s somethi
dent
t here in the restaurant. It was almost worth doing just so that I could see her reaction. I stayed silent and let her regal