Page 56 of Charming my Best Friend

Chapter 18: Aiden

I was psyched to see the match waiting for me when I got out of the shower.

And I could’ve spent all night trying to think of what to say, but I wanted to say something before she decided I was just being friendly. Cause I wasn’t. I was trying to get friendly- in the most indelicate way possible- and I was going to have to destroy over a decade of her treating me like a friend to do it.

Of course, I knew better than to text her a bullshit line. Not that I didn’t have plenty of them, but the most important thing was to get the conversation going, and I was new to online dating. So I figured I’d keep it simple.

And when she answered, I knew I’d accomplished my mission.

“Hi,” she texted.

“I liked your pics,” I typed back.

“Which one did you like best?”

“Probably the one of you eating cake.”

“Why’s that?”

“Cause you look good licking your lips.”

“You’re disgusting.”

I could picture the expression on her face while she tried not to smile. “When’s the last time you had something sweet in your mouth?” I asked.

“I had Skittles for lunch.”

“And before that?”

“I had yogurt for breakfast.”

“And did you have anything sweet- oh I don’t know- last Saturday night.”

“Nope. Not a damn thing.”

I sighed. So she still wasn’t ready to admit that she liked kissing me. Unfortunately for her, that only made me more determined than ever to do it again. “I liked the slide picture, too.”

“Oh?”

“Made me wonder if you slide up just as well as you slide down.”

She didn’t say anything.

I wished I could’ve seen her blushing. “Well?”

“I’m not answering that,” she typed.

“I’ll take that as a yes then.”

“Don’t.”

I laughed. “You’re feisty. I like that.”

Nothing.

“Which of my pictures did you like best?”

“Meh.”

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