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She thinks he's a jerk and is being nice, for Marina's sake I' different?
India has oftentheir thick beards, their fancy moustaches, their man buns, their lumberjack shirts and prayer beads She scoffs at all pretense, preferring honesty over artifice Realism over idealism
Man Bun is another bust on the old dating-app score sheet
Marina brings Heather over and introduces us, then leaves the two of us alone I shake her hand; she's i and lacquered Her hair is so else It looks like she just stepped out of a steam room, all crimped and fluffy Like unraveled yarn Rainbow yarn That's what it looks like to me
"So nice to meet you," she says in a heavy Valley Girl accent, her words rising at the end It grates on my nerves "Marina says you're a perfectlike she approves "She's right in the looks departer Ragnar? She says you surf, too I don't surf, but I love the beach Maybe we could go some time She says you have a place down south Maybe you could teachin hair color I could use the fresh air Marina said…"
The rest of the next hour is spent withone-word answers to Heather as she breathlessly opines on everything from the latest blockbuster superhero movie to the election and the price of apart to talk about myself, and she only seems interested in what kind of car I drive, where my apartment is located, and what kind of investments I have
She's not bad, as people go She's not the brightest star in the heavens, but she's notAnd none of it interests me in the least
I honestly don't care about one word that comes out of her perfectly painted mouth I can't even ht do when aroundabout hair color and how intricate it is I see that Man Bun is leaning in close to her and now he's pulling on a strand of her hair She looks all coy, like she's eating this up
She likes him?
What the fuck?
I turn back to Heather, who's telling me about semi-permanent and permanent dyes and how colors have to be developed, and a bunch of other stuff I should be paying attention to if I want to seduce her
But I don't
At that moment, I don't want to fuck her Her melon breasts are far too perfect I suspect that if she jumped up and down, they wouldn't move an inch They're so obviously false and as a result, totally unappealing tofor taste Only the very best aug I've seen and felt a nue
Heather takes a break froins to ask me questions
"Marina tells me you own a satellite company Do you do communications satellites? Like AT&T?"