Chapter 184

I pull the door open, curious to face him, but then blink in surprise

when I see Daniel standing there.

“Oh,” I say, my eyes wide as I look up at him. “Daniel.”

He smirks, leaning against my doorframe with a basket full of supplies in his arms. “What. Expecting someone else?”

I laugh a little and look down at the basket, filled with popcorn and

movie supplies. “What are you doing here?”

“Movie night,” he reminds me, perhaps a little too cheerfully. Then

he looks beyond me, expectant. “Can I come in?”

I bite my lip, not really knowing how to say “no, thank you, please go away, your dad I think wants to take my virginity tonight and be quite nice about it.” But Daniel doesn’t wait for my reply anyway,

pushing past me.

“I was thinking some 90’s classics tonight,” he says, looking at

with a grin as he settles onto

wall as I watch him pull his laptop from the basket and open it so that

open doorway, and pauses

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he says quietly, looking at me

this.”

I breathe, shaking my head, not understanding him. “Daniel, you don’t even like me –

be on this date with

at the door,

in the hallway at any moment. “I have to marry someone, Fay. And in this world, it can’t be a man.” He shifts his gaze to mine. “I want it to be you – I care about

the floor. “I just don’t know…”

begs, and I look up at

but I can’t let

just do this? Can you please let me

door shut

my

head on his shoulder. “But you

screen on a scale from 1 to 10, and you have

honest about it.”

Rudd is the only ten,” Daniel murmurs, pressing play on the computer and then grabbing a bag of popcorn from the basket, offering it to me. I laugh as I accept it, and then, comfortable, begin to watch the

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