Total pages in book: 91
Estimated words: 90736 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 454(@200wpm)___ 363(@250wpm)___ 302(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 90736 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 454(@200wpm)___ 363(@250wpm)___ 302(@300wpm)
Once I have him settled, I return to the kitchen—and my conversation with Andy.
Chapter 14
Harlow: Want to play a game?
Andy: Games are my jam.
Andy: Wait—is this an actual game, or the kind of game we play where you ask a bunch of questions and I have to answer them? LOL
Harlow: How did you know!?
Andy: You should have said that to begin with—you got me all excited over nothing.
Harlow: Nothing? Questions aren’t nothing.
Andy: Do I get to ask them too?
Harlow: Of course! All’s fair . . .
Andy: Do you actually believe that?
Harlow: Of course.
Andy: All’s fair in Love and war?
Harlow: Yes.
Andy: So you agree that whatever someone has to do to win someone’s heart is fair game?
Harlow: Knock it off—I’m the one who was going to do the questions.
Andy: I beat you to it.
Harlow: “whatever someone has to do to win someone’s heart is fair game?” this sounds creepy, so this is a no. A hard no.
Andy: Calm down, I’m not going to start driving past your house . . .
Harlow: Come on over. Just make sure that if you spend the night, you’re gone by sunrise. Haha
Andy: You bet. I probably have a flight that morning anyway.
Harlow: Oh aren’t you the clever one . . .
Andy: I try.
Andy: Actually I’ve recently learned that I’m not great at flirting.
Harlow: What makes you think you’re not great at flirting? Like—do you even Have to?
Andy: Me specifically?
Harlow: Yes, you specifically. Do you even have to, or do women just start throwing their panties at you?
Andy: Oh come on now. I don’t have it that easy.
Andy: Now what’s that first question you’ve been dying to ask me? You must have been thinking about it all day to randomly text me back after hours and hours, but who’s counting?
Harlow: LOL
Andy: Hashtag facts
Harlow: No one spells out the word hashtag—you just use the #
Andy: I know, smart ass. I was being ironic and funny.
Harlow: OHhhhhhhh
Andy: . . . you were Saying?
Harlow: What’s the weirdest thing that happened to you this week?
Andy: That’s such an easy one: getting food poisoning in Central Park, throwing up in a Central Park garbage can—then seeing you in the elevator. What were the odds?
Harlow: Valid. I almost forgot that’s how we met.
Andy: I will Never forget that is how we met. It’s going to be burned in my brain forever. And ever.
Andy: Now you answer the question.
Harlow: You’re going to think I’m copying. But the weirdest thing to happen all week was telling some rando at the park Not to eat the chicken because it was going to make him sick—then seeing you sick, then going exploring with you the next day.
Andy: We sound so exciting!
Harlow: Because we are!
Andy: Exclamation points are my favorite!
Harlow: LOL
Andy: They make us sound more exciting!
Harlow: Valid
Harlow: What’s the best advice you’ve ever gotten?
Andy: Let me think. I get a ton of advice, but I think the best advice I’ve ever gotten went something like this: you don’t have to take everyone’s advice just because they’re giving it. Trust your gut.
Harlow: So true.
Andy: What do you typically have for breakfast?
Harlow: Uh. Celery juice? I don’t eat breakfast, sometimes I’ll do an English muffin. What do You eat for breakfast?
Andy: It depends.
Harlow: On what?
Andy: If I’m working out or not. I have to eat a lot of calories, honestly. So, like, five eggs, oatmeal, fruit, some kind of protein. Some kind of carb—I like bread.
Harlow: All at the Same Time? I mean—no judgment.
Andy: Yes, at the same time. You burn calories when you work out!
Andy: Do you work out at all?
Harlow: Hey, I get the next question.
Andy: Is it because you don’t want to admit that you don’t work out?
Harlow: Sir, I don’t like your tone. And that was Another question!
Andy: Sorry. Hit me with your best shot.
Harlow: Hold on. I’m thinking of a question . . .
Harlow: Okay here’s one: what do you miss?
Andy: What do I miss? That’s deep. Let’s see, what do I miss? What do I miss . . . probably knowing what’s going to happen next week. Or day to day. I don’t know, I miss feeling normal.
Harlow: Um. What does that mean? You miss feeling normal?
Andy: You know. This in-between-gigs thing really creates a lot of guesswork. I hate it.
Harlow: Sure, that makes sense.
Andy: Sorry, I feel like I word vomited without thinking.
Harlow: I’m the one who asked you to word vomit.
Andy: Fair enough. Now it’s your turn: what do You miss?
Harlow: My mom. I miss how my dad was before she died. And now he’s just . . . so outgoing it feels fake. Like he’s faking it and trying so hard to be happy and upbeat, and I miss the days I wasn’t annoyed by it.
Harlow: And that makes me feel like a major asshole.
Andy: Why would you feel like an asshole?