Chapter 4
Eve and Shannon go out to celebrate and drink too much champagne, and when they say goodbye on the C train, they’re both happy-teary and can’t quite remember how they ended up this way.
Julian and Gigi are out of town visiting wedding venues, so Eve plans to luxuriate in the empty apartment all weekend.
She will make herself her traditional post-drinking snack: a peanut butter spoon.
As she walks up the stairs to their apartment, she thinks: I am finally in the version of the story I always wanted.
She unlocks the door and shoves it open with her shoulder, but where she expects darkness, there is actually light, and where she expects an empty apartment, there is actually a man at the sink holding a glass of water and staring at her with probably more than the appropriate amount of shock, but it is shocking, like a physical shock when they look at each other, and obviously it’s not first sight because they’ve known each other for ten years but it feels like something fundamental has just taken shape in the space between his eyes and hers, but then again, maybe Eve is just getting carried away because who believes in all that, just nonsense, really, except for right now when it feels like the truest thing in the world when Danny finally finally finally says, “Eve?”