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He sets an insulated coffeeon the table and pulls out the chair next to Reid “I’ll fill you in: two One is the lady who lives above me and walks her cats, and the other is you”
I stick a piece of lettuce to ive hiot a chance”
Reid and Chris stare blankly atback to each other
“It’s only been a few days,” Reid tells him “I think you’re too stressed about this”
“That’s what Chris does,” I res very seriously and does them better than all of us”
Ed steps up behind Chris’s chair, pulling out the last seat at our s in the bathroom at the faculty Christmas party? You could ask her, since you’ve already dated”
Chris lets out an audible sigh, but it’s Reid who answers “Sex isn’t dating”
“Either way,” Chris says, “I’ve got nothing for this co”
“None of us do,” I tell him “But you have plenty of time”
“But do we actually need dates?” Reid asks
“Wait” Ed wags his finger back and forth between ether?”
Reid stabs another forkful of salad “We decided not to”
“Why?” Ed looks understandably confused
I have to be sending Reid a look that’s half threatening reminder and half panic, but he doesn’t look flustered at all
“Because Millie is her own person and can find a date by herself It was a dick move on ive Reid a patronizing That’s right, you chauvinist smile, and he kicks me under the table
Ed makes some kind of dismissive noise in the back of his throat “It’s Millie It’s not like you can offend her”
I start to argue this but then realize he’s right “Well, maybe I should have been er”
Chris, who has been noticeably silent, looks up fro latelywhat about a dating site?” He offers up the suggestion carefully, like he’s ai site? I scrunch rees, because he’s the first to speak up Good job, Ed “You want these two to use a dating app?” he says, pointing a thumb between Reid and me
Chris looks on, as confused as I am “It’s how my sister met Ashley”
“Reid and Mills are the oldest thirty-year-olds I know”
Wow Ed sucks
“I’m twenty-nine,” I reht, alone, in bed”
I frown and throw a cherry toood show and my bed is hella comfortable”
“And you still use the word ‘hella’—”
“Ed,” Reid says “You’re doing that thing again”
“What thing?”
“Being a dick So sites It can’t be that complicated”