Chapter 10
CHAPTER TEN
PENELOPE
Group text with Sutton, Chloe, Willa, and Penelope
Willa:
It’s been a week and we’re dying to know.
Penelope:
Know what?
Chloe:
How things are going with you and Glare Bear. Have you staged your death yet to escape the sexual tension?
Penelope:
There’s no sexual tension.
Sutton:
Sure.
Penelope:
There isn’t! And things are fine.
Willa:
Uh oh. Everyone knows fine doesn’t actually mean fine.
Chloe:
On a scale of 1 to “I licked his abs in a dream,” how bad is it?
Penelope:
There is no scale because everything is fine!
Sutton:
There’s that word again.
Willa:
You may as well spill. Those other two are fucking relentless when they want details.
Chloe:
Listen to her, Pen. She speaks from experience.
Penelope:
I’m not going to make something up to satisfy whatever weird curiosity you have going on!
Sutton:
You can either tell us via text or we’ll drag you to One Night Stan’s, ply you with enough alcohol to loosen your lips, and get you to spill everything in public.
Chloe:
That’s true. We will do that. And actually, I’d prefer the second option! GIRLSSSSSSSSS NIGHT!!!!
Willa:
They are NOT bluffing.
Penelope:
Okay. Fine. There was a towel incident.
Chloe:
WE KNEW IT!
Willa:
Define incident
Penelope:
It was nothing. Just got me a little flustered.
Sutton:
Details. Now.
Willa:
Was it a low towel or a looooowwwwwww towel?
Chloe:
Were there back dimples on display? How about a happy trail??
Penelope:
I’m afraid I can’t tell you that. Librarian-patron confidentiality.
Willa:
Ma’am, this is not the reference desk.
Sutton:
Nice try, but your BS isn’t gonna work on us.
Chloe:
Just give us a hint at what was going on…
Penelope:
Well, the towels Mabel provided aren’t the biggest. Or the thickest.
Chloe:
OH MY GOD. COULD YOU SEE IT????
Penelope:
I don’t think so. He had to have something else there.
Sutton:
Why do you say that?
Penelope:
Because it was too big, for one thing. Like, alien tentacle big.
Chloe:
Don’t knock it till you try it, Pen.
Penelope:
And for another, there was this like…hard bump on it? Or a tiny ball? A bb? Idk.
Sutton:
Interesting.
Willa:
Well, he does own a tattoo parlor.
Chloe:
That also does piercings.
Penelope:
Idk what that has to do with anything.
Sutton:
All in good time, babe. All in good time.