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“Stopfun of me, this is serious! I’ve never been so traumatized in my entire life I have to move now”

“Oh, for heaven’s sake—you do not have to ain “The guy was probably just as embarrassed as you were”

“Maybe But he’s gotta think I’m a total idiot After I barricaded myself in the bathroom, he stayed for a ed and shook , ‘I’round would open up and s me”

“Stop being so drauy saw you naked—who cares?”

“Naked and crawling on the floor,” I reminded her

“Fine Naked and crawling on the floor It’s trauuys will be able to laugh about it”

“Like you’re able to laugh about finding the box of sex toys under your parents’ bed when you were sixteen?”

“NO That was a whole other level of trauht that up”

“Oh, come on It was funny”

“Winnie, there was a whip in that box! And a blindfold!”

“I know” Distracted for a ine your parents—”

“Please stop talking”

I laughed “Sorry”

“I wonder if he went hohbor lady naked”

“Oh! Turns out, there is no wife”

She glanced at ht you saw her”

“That was his sister He’s a single dad—only two of those kids were his Hallie and Luna” I cringed again “The ones who saw me naked”

“A hot single dad, huh?” Ellie was clearly intrigued “And he’s right next door Iine that”

“Actually, I don’t know that he’s single Just that he’s not irlfriend”

“And he ht not”

“Don’t get any ideas,” I told her, even though I’d already had plenty of ideas about the hot single dad next door, who’d only o