Curve Ball
“And yet somehow, I feel worse. I’m used to put-downs and veiled insults, and numbing myself to all of them. I’m not in the least bit used to weirdly solicitous behaviour, of the kind he is now exhibiting.
He keeps putting his arm around me. And when he’s not putting his arm around my shoulders or my waist or disturbingly much lower than my waist, he’s saying nice things about me. Of course, most of the time he fails at the nice things – I’m fairly sure “your hair is really big today” isn’t ...a compliment – but the point is he’s trying. The really insane point is that Steven Stark, owner of a fart machine, is really trying.
And I just don’t know what to do with that. I feel like I should be nice back, but everything I think of would only make it seem as though I fancy him. You can’t tell a handsome man that his eyebrows are amazing, because the first thing he’ll do is assume you have an enormous crush on him.
Lord, I don’t want Steven to think I have an enormous crush on him.MoreLess
He keeps putting his arm around me. And when he’s not putting his arm around my shoulders or my waist or disturbingly much lower than my waist, he’s saying nice things about me. Of course, most of the time he fails at the nice things – I’m fairly sure “your hair is really big today” isn’t ...a compliment – but the point is he’s trying. The really insane point is that Steven Stark, owner of a fart machine, is really trying.
And I just don’t know what to do with that. I feel like I should be nice back, but everything I think of would only make it seem as though I fancy him. You can’t tell a handsome man that his eyebrows are amazing, because the first thing he’ll do is assume you have an enormous crush on him.
Lord, I don’t want Steven to think I have an enormous crush on him.MoreLess
Read book Curve Ball for free
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
9 / 10
User Reviews: