The Rules of Love & Grammar (2016)
“Neither he nor she expected things to escalate so quickly.
I walk into Ernie’s that night at eight o’clock. It’s been only two days since I saw Peter at the party, and I know I shouldn’t get anxious, but he hasn’t called. So of course I’m anxious. I know it’s a long shot that Peter and his entourage will have dinner here three nights in a row, but it can’t hurt to be around if they do.
I’m wearing my favorite jeans, faded to perfection, a powder-blue sweater that brings out the blue in ...my eyes, and a dab of the old Chloé Innocence perfume I used to wear in high school, a scent Peter always liked. I know what Cluny would say—that it’s no accident I happened to find that bottle of perfume while I was looking for some deodorant—but I’m sure it was just luck.
Ernie’s looks the same as always, like a friend who doesn’t change with fads or fashions. I scan its dimly lit interior, decorated in the style of an English pub, with hand-hewn beams running across the ceiling and round wooden tables surrounded by chairs with green, leathery seats.MoreLess
I walk into Ernie’s that night at eight o’clock. It’s been only two days since I saw Peter at the party, and I know I shouldn’t get anxious, but he hasn’t called. So of course I’m anxious. I know it’s a long shot that Peter and his entourage will have dinner here three nights in a row, but it can’t hurt to be around if they do.
I’m wearing my favorite jeans, faded to perfection, a powder-blue sweater that brings out the blue in ...my eyes, and a dab of the old Chloé Innocence perfume I used to wear in high school, a scent Peter always liked. I know what Cluny would say—that it’s no accident I happened to find that bottle of perfume while I was looking for some deodorant—but I’m sure it was just luck.
Ernie’s looks the same as always, like a friend who doesn’t change with fads or fashions. I scan its dimly lit interior, decorated in the style of an English pub, with hand-hewn beams running across the ceiling and round wooden tables surrounded by chairs with green, leathery seats.MoreLess
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