Chapter 24 : Three Days

Three days is not a long time.Three days is, in fact, the exact amount of time a person can go from being a person who is happy to be a person who is panicking. Three days is the exact amount of time between. I want people to know I am with you too, and I have not heard from him since Tuesday, and I am a person who is fine.Tuesday, we had dinner at his place. We had pad thai on the kitchen floor. We had Sophie on speakerphone. We had burned garlic bread in the trash. We had Lincoln on his lap. We had his hand across the takeout containers, his thumb on my knuckles. We had the small, careful, very specific way he looks at me, which is the way a man looks at a person he is going to be with, which is a way I have not stopped thinking about for three days.Tuesday was good.Tuesday was the kind of good that a person gets used to very fast, which is the kind of good that becomes a problem, because the second Tuesday stops being the shape of the day, the person who got used to it starts c

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Chapter 25: Redo

Saturday, 6:48 p.m.I have been standing in front of my closet for fifteen minutes, which is six minutes longer than is reasonable, and one minute less than I stood in front of my closet the first time I went on a date with Aiden Black, which means I have either learned a small amount of restraint, or I have decided that a sweater and jeans is the appropriate uniform for a man who has, in the last forty-eight hours, fallen asleep in a break room and been found by me with two coffees and a hurt voice.I am going with the sweater and jeans.I am going with the wine.I have also, in a moment of clear weakness, put on the small silver necklace Sophie lent me. I am not going to think about why. I am not going to think about the fact that Sophie lent it to me for the first date, and that I am wearing it now, on the second date, on a Saturday, because it has become the small, specific thing I wear when I am a person who is going to see Aiden Black.I take a Lyft to Silverlake. I get there at

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Chapter 26: Alive

Monday, 7:14 a.m.I am standing in the lobby of a physical therapy clinic in Silverlake that is not the one I go to, and I am wearing a lanyard that says Park, E. - Assistant, and I am about to start my first day back at work in a real, professional, not-Sophie, not-Aiden capacity, and I am terrified.The clinic is called Silverlake Movement Lab. It is the same clinic where I have been doing PT with Carlos, except now I am on the other side of the room, behind the front desk, with a clipboard, doing intake, and helping Carlos, and not being a patient, and the small, specific fact of being a person who is working is making me very emotional in a way I am going to have to deal with later, in private, probably on the couch, probably with the candle lit.Carlos is here. Carlos is wearing the same resistance band around his wrist. Carlos is in a good mood. Carlos is the kind of man who says things like "Let's get you warmed up, Park to patients and to me in the same voice," which is the mo

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Chapter 27: Just Us

Monday, 6:23 p.m.I am home.I am home and I am a person who is exhausted and who is going to do the small, normal things a person does when they get home, which are: take off shoes, drop bag on floor, light candle, sit on couch. I am going to do these things in this exact order. I am a person who has a routine now. I am a person who is a person.I take off my shoes. I drop my bag on the floor. I light the candle. I sit on the couch.I am on the couch for four seconds before I notice that I am not alone.Aiden is on the couch. He is on the far end. He is in jeans and a black T-shirt, the same jeans and the same black T-shirt he was wearing at five p.m. when he had handed me a coffee in the parking lot, except now he is on my couch, in my apartment, with Lincoln on his lap, in a way that suggests he has been here for a while, in a way that suggests he let himself in, in a way that suggests we have reached the small, specific, very normal part of a relationship where a man lets himself

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All Chapters of How I Met My Wife.: Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

Chapter 24 : Three Days

Chapter 25: Redo

Chapter 26: Alive

Chapter 27: Just Us