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"You, help shopping?"
"I want to come help my best friend Can’t I do that?"
"You just want to be an ass" She groaned
"No I don’t Let reat thing about being the boss’s son I can take off when there’s an e, Clementine"
"Oh, thank you, Mr Madison!" she exclai voice "I’hed "And who knows, ht"
"I told you, I have a date"
"Well, maybe you’ll come to your senses"
"I’m allowed to date, Rhett"
"I know that, but a loser you met online?" I hed "No one in my farandrandrandson since I had met her as a little kid
"By the way, Nanna asked me if you can cohed
"She also said to tell you that you can bring your girlfriend"
"What girlfriend?" I groaned "Cleirlfriends I don’t want a relationship"
"Don’t you ever want to get e? Why?"
"For true love? For companionship?"
"I don’t believe in true love and I have you for companionship"
"But what about the other stuff?" Her voice sounded ehed and adjusted ht, but I was uncomfortable Part of , but I knew that there was no way she’d understand I didn’t even understand
"Whatever, Rhett" She sighed "Have sex with na a player"
"Thank you, I will" I snapped back at her
"Why did you call me, Rhett?" She sounded annoyed
"I wanted to talk Or is that a no-no now you’re dating online?"
"It’s ht"
"Would you rather I say this is a booty call?" I asked, half-joking
"Rhett!"
"What?" I laughed
"I’ross"
"I’ myself now" I muttered into the phone, while I adjustedyou"
"I’hed "I’ll see you to up and I closedoff I iirl on the dance floor I could feelharder and harder and as I carabbed the small towel at the side of the bed and cleaned up I lay back down and frowned I didn’t want to think about picturing Cleirl at the club I needed to think about so on a date I orried about Cleuys were going to eat her alive I was going to have to oing to have to figure out how
I woke up the nextannoyed and I didn’t knohy I jumped in the shower and then headed out to pick Cleoing to the door, and waited
"What the fuck!" I gru at least fifteenwheel and honked again
My phone beeped and I saw a text from Clementine "Yes, Rhett?"
"If you know I’m outside, why don’t you hurry your ass up?"
"I’entlelared at the phone I swore she thought we lived back in the fifties and hadn’t gotten the note that uys like me
"Do you really expect me to come to the door?"
"If this was a date, wouldn’t you be on your best behavior?" She was right, of course Both of us had gone to etiquette and then cotillion classes We kneas expected of fine young southerners, but I just wasn’t in theinside until you show yours every second of this conversation
"I swear I’hed as I stepped out of
"Clementine!" I shouted as I knocked on the front door
"Oh, hi, Rhett" She opened the door slowly and grinned atin the car for the last 30 erate" She walked out of the door "Let’s go eat I’ to iuy?" I looked at her for a few seconds as alked if the car "I thought you didn’t wanna go on your date looking like a fatass"
"Are you saying that breakfast is going to make oing to get pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, and hashbrowns like you norhed
"You’re so rude, Rhett"
"That’s why I don’t have a girlfriend" I grinned as we got into the car
"Yeah, that’s why" She poked me in the ribs "You’re not all skin and bones yourself"
"Hey, we can be fatties together"
"You’re a jerk" She turned away from me and looked out of the
"You’re not seriously hed as I stared at the side of her face "I was just joking"
"Uh huh," she retorted and I froze, not sure what to say Clementine was so sensitive these days It was like she had lost her sense of hus
"I don’t really think you’re a fatass, Clemmie"
"Uh huh" She still didn’t look atabout the amount of food you eat" I reached out and touched her shoulder "Don’t be ry" She started and then looked at ain but started giggling
"What?" I frowned as I watched her laughing
"Gotcha" She
"Don’t do that, Cleht you were seriously upset"
"That’s what you get for being an asshole"