The crush, p.4
The Crush,
p.4
Then, I no longer have to ignore the feeling because it fades on its own. Maybe from lack of oxygen? Not seeing a man will do that to you, I suppose. I barely think of him from thousands of miles away.
Fine, André does help distract me. The French art student I meet mostly takes my mind off Bridger as we wander through museums together and visit dance clubs with our friends.
Except, maybe we’re wired to want what we don’t have since sometimes when I kiss André in my flat in the Sixth, I think of the man in the purple shirt. Sometimes when André touches me, I imagine someone else’s hands on my skin.
Maybe that’s why this brief Paris romance doesn’t last long enough for André to be my first. That, and art studies keep calling to me, leaving little time for my French lover…or Bridger.
There is too much beauty here in Paris to linger on one faraway man.
When I return to New York in December, I nearly turn down my father’s email invitation to attend a Sweet Nothings gala.
I want to RSVP instantly with a no.
And that feels fantastic. Freeing even.
Until I read on, seeing the part where Bridger’s single again.
Oh.
Well.
Maybe I should go to the party. Just to confirm this wicked little crush is out of my system after all.
I change my reply to a yes.
But when I go, Bridger’s wearing the teal shirt.
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