The Unhoneymooners

“That day, I believe, was the day I fell in love with you.”

You never actually try.

“Would you mind taking a photo of me and my girlfriend?”

your attitude can foster how people react to you?

“It’s so exhausting pretending to hate you.”

“God, I hate you.”

His voice is a growl behind me: “No, you don’t.”

“As if that would be my reaction to seeing you naked, Olive.”

“I still hate you,” I tell him, pushing a dark curl of hair off his forehead.

He nods. “I know you do.”

“That’s a sound I haven’t heard a man make before.”

“Something like that.” The corner of his mouth twitches upward.