“
She lowered her seat all the way back until she was lying down, and she turned on her side to face me, her arm tucked under her head. “She still has the ticket stubs from the first movie we went to, like, twelve years ago.”
The way she was lying showed off the curve in her hips. I could almost picture her like that next to me in bed. Her lipstick was gone, but the stain was still on her lips, making them look pink and supple. I wanted to put a thumb to her mouth, see if it felt as soft as it looked.
She looked out of place in this shitty car with torn, faded fabric on the seat under her, duct tape on the glove box. Like an elegant leading lady right out of a black-and-white movie, dropped into a scene that didn’t make any sense.
I tore my gaze away, afraid she’d notice me staring.
“Lie down with me,” she said. “We have what? A forty-five-minute wait? Might as well be comfortable.”
I lowered my seat and stared up through the sunroof at the Los Angeles version of stars—the planes lining up to land at LAX.
We sat in silence for a minute, and I thought of that scene in Pulp Fiction, when—
“You know what this feels like?” she asked. “That scene in Pulp Fiction, when—”
“Comfortable silences. When Mia Wallace says, ‘That’s when you know you’ve found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.’”
She made a finger gun at me. “Disco.”
We smiled and held each other’s gaze for a moment. A long, lingering moment. And then, just for a second—a split second—her eyes dropped to my lips.
That’s all it took.
In that moment, I knew. She’d thought about kissing me just then.
This isn’t one-sided.
It was the first hint I’d seen that she was interested. That she thought of me as more than just a friend.
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