Chapter 66

“I like teasing you,” he said. But, suddenly, we stopped dancing. His doing. “You’ll let me know if it bothers you, right?” He looked so serious when I glanced up.

“Of course.” I reached to tap his nose.

“I don’t want to…”

“Be like Tom. I know. It’s different. I don’t think you could ever hurt someone’s feelings.”

“I hope not. It’s new. Us. We’re new. This is only our…eighth date?”

I added them up in my head. “Yes. Counting Halloween night—the day after, actually, where we talked for hours.”

“If we count phone stuff, it’s like our hundredth date.”

“Thousandth.”

“Millionth. I’m enjoying myself,” Patrick declared. “And I don’t want to fuck it up.”

“You’re not. I mean, to be brutally honest, you made yourself look like the clueless one with that Mary Kate and Ashley comment.” I shook my head. “Did they ever own a store?”

“One like this, I think.”

Patrick made me laugh.

“Let’s dress them as superheroes!” he suddenly exclaimed.