Page 41 of The Plus Ones
“I just don’t see how that’s possible.”
“No one’s ever told you that you snore before?”
“No. I told you I don’t like sleeping with guys.”
“But you lived with Aimee.”
“Yeah, in college. And not even for a whole year in Brooklyn, thanks to Chase. But she didn’t actually sleep in my room.”
“How long has it been since you slept in the same bed or the same room with a guy?”
“Years.”
“So you really don’t date, do you? What’s your deal? You just hang out with dudes and have sex with them and that’s it?”
“Please go outside.”
“Okay, no more talking. But no more snoring either.”
“I don’t snore.”
“Okay. But maybe the reason you’re such a light sleeper is you keep waking yourself up with the snoring. Just a theory. So I’m the first guy you’ve slept in the same bed with in how many years?”
“I can’t sleep with someone else in my bed. At all. Ever.”
“Well, you were obviously sleeping before, unless you snore when you’re awake.”
“I don’t snore.”
“Okay. You’re really not going to try sleeping on your side?”
She huffs and flips over so her back is to me. I watch as her breathing slows. I wonder if her nipples are still erect. They’ve been on high alert all day long. They must be exhausted.
“Stop looking at me.”
“Good night.” I turn over onto my other side.I know why it makes me happy that she snores. It’s because it makes her seem like more of a real person and less of a hot chick from a video game.
Five minutes later, she’s asleep and snoring, and I’m holding my phone over her head, recording this amazing noise as a voice memo. I really want to use the camera so I can prove that it’s her, but that just seems creepy. I also really want to wake her up again so I can play this back to her, but it’s probably a dick move to wake her up twice just to prove a point. I stop recording and place my phone back on the bedside table.
It takes an hour of lying here listening to Roxy snoring before I realize that I can put on my headphones and hope that they block out the sound. I lie on my back with the headphones on for another half an hour or so, unable to fall asleep because I’m so amused by the fact that she snoresandthat she’s able to sleep so soundly with me in the same bed as her. She isn’t going to believe one of those things in the morning, but she’ll wake up with a better idea of just how special Keaton Bridges really is to her.
9
Keaton
It’s after ten when I get to the breakfast buffet. I woke up to an empty room, a note that saidThe headphones are a bit much, and a multitude of group texts telling me that everyone else was eating breakfast two hours ago. Now, everyone else is already at the pool, but Chase is being an actual best friend for a change, and he has come over to keep me company while I eat and guzzle coffee.
“She snores? Really?”
“I would have had a better night’s sleep if I’d shared a bed with Godzilla. I could still hear it with the headphones on.”
“Well, she’s in an awfully good mood this morning.”
“I’ll bet. She must have slept really well.”
“And not because…” He dips down to get me to look him in the eyes.
I look at him straight on. “Definitely not because…”
