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I turned to face the evil mirror, and even though I suddenly felt the need to do a juice cleanse and sign up for spinning and CrossFit classes, I had to admit that the dress was super sexy and would be perfectly appropriate with a blouse over it. And goshdarnit—my tatas did look amazing and I did want to make Theo’s cock erupt.
Chloe was watching my face—not the splotchy reflection in the evil mirror, but my actual face. “See?”
I looked at her and smiled. Everything was right in the world. “I love you.”
“I love you too. And I love you and Theo. As a couple.”
“I need to get out of this now.”
“You guys belong together,” she continued, while helping me out of the dress. “In every way. You would literally be the cutest couple in the history of planet Earth, and you would be the first cute couple I actually like. I hate cute couples.”
“That’s a lot of pressure. That’s too much pressure.”
“It will be the easiest thing in the world once you stop resisting the inevitable. Just watch the wedding video.”
“No!”
“Why not?!”
“For the thousandth time—if I watch, it will be like watching a movie. It’ll freak me out because I won’t know what was for show and what was real and I won’t be able to just hang out with him without second-guessing everything.”
“You already can’t do that. You’re staying with us because you can’t do that.”
She had a point. But I definitely wasn’t going to watch it before our first date. I was half-way out of the dress and needed Chloe to stick around, and the only way I was going to get her to stop talking about the wedding video was if I changed the subject. Hard. “Did you ever have sex with anyone before Ethan?”
She blinked twice before telling me to lift my arms straight up. “Just high school sex. Why? Are you nervous about having sex with Theo?”
I stared at her blank-faced. “What do you think?”
She pulled the underwire away from my skin, so her fingers wouldn’t graze my nipples while struggling to lift the rest of the bunched-up dress over my boobs. “But why? It won’t be awkward. Theo will know what he’s doing.”
“Well that’s kind of the thing. He has so much more experience than me.”
“Trust me. If the chemistry is there, nothing else will matter.”
I was finally out of the dress but I still couldn’t quite breathe.
“Hey,” she said. “Stop inventing problems and let yourself be happy.”
I nodded. “I think you’re going to have to help me into this dress before you leave for work tomorrow.”
“Yeah, good. That way you’ll feel totally comfortable in it by the time Theo picks you up. Just don’t starve yourself all day. Better to get a food stain on your dress than to act like an idiot because your brain hasn’t been fed.”
I already knew that I would never feel totally comfortable in that dress, that I was going to starve myself all day, and that I would definitely act like an idiot. But I trusted that I’d have a good time with Theo anyway. Because it was us. Surely, not even I would be able to mess that up.
