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The fire can be anything that motivates you. Including the good F words.
VIVIAN
Feelings and fucking?
ME
The first rule of 4F’s Club is we don’t talk about feelings. Good night.
Enjoy your salad. Drink plenty of water, add electrolytes if you have them, and stretch before bed and when you get up tomorrow.
VIVIAN
Good night, Coach.
ME
Don’t call me Coach.
VIVIAN
Fine. Enjoy bossing me around, Mitch. I apologize for making it so hard for you to stay mad at me. It is literally impossible for me to be less charming.
I’m not going to respond to that.
VIVIAN
I just want you to know that I forgive you for not responding to my text about how charming I am, and thank you for letting me have the last word because I know how hard that is for you too. Nighty night!
Not falling for that.
But fuck.
ME
I highly recommend not eating an entire pint of ice cream, but that’s just advice. Good night.
CHAPTER 10
VIVIAN
Why am I so attracted to men who love discipline and hate sugar?
It wasn’t all that hard to live without the croissants and the Danishes before. I can live without them again. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to give up tacos and artisanal ice cream and pie.
My phone vibrates in my pocket again. I left my sister a message on my way home from the gym. The message was:Aubrey, what the fuck?She has been texting and calling and FaceTiming me for the past hour. I’ve finished my dinner and taken a shower and tried to talk some sense into my throbbing clitoris and vulva, but they are determined to convince Brad Mitchell that he has unfinished business with them. I’ve snuggled with Hairy Styles and done the dishes, and now I’m ready to find out what the hell Aubrey has been up to.
I settle into my armchair, cross-legged, even though my legs are already feeling kind of tight, and then I accept her FaceTime call. She looks very impatient. And judging by the way she’s swaying back and forth, I’d say she’s on her stationary bicycle. “Oh my God, finally! Tell me everything.”
“Hi, how are you?” I ask, playing it cool.
“How was it?”
“Good! I slayed.”
“Wait, what? What about Brad?”
“Yeah, that was a surprise.”
