Between Us Novels & Stories

Emily had replied five minutes later with a three-paragraph essay that had kept me staring at my phone until my eyes hurt. *Ethan, you idiot. You don't just wake up one morning with a neon sign over your head. If you've spent your whole life being into girls, that doesn't magically become a lie because you suddenly feel something for someone with a dick. It's not an on-off switch. You can be in between. It's called being bisexual, or just being human. Stop fighting whatever is in your chest and admit what you're feeling.* In between. The words sat heavily in my mind.

I spent twenty hours on a train in coach, traveling more than 1,800 miles to see Harry Berger. I texted him to vent. "I'm so tired. My back feels like it’s about to break." It took him more than ten minutes to reply. "So? Do you want me to praise you for it, or feel sorry for you? "I didn’t make you come. You bought the ticket yourself, too. Don’t act like everyone owes you something." I stared at those words. The "I miss you" sticker I had intended to send remained unsent. Then he sent me an airport location. "Gemma heard you were coming and bought a ticket at the last minute. She wants to meet up with us. She has a lot of luggage, so I’m going to pick her up first since I’ll be pass

She jolt up from the couch, and i have been expecting such a reaction from her. “Relax, and please listen to me first, then you are free to take whatsoever decision of yours!” I said calmly. She pace restlessly at the front me for a brief seconds, glare at me before sitting down again. “Okay, I am listening!” "Well, this isn't a love marriage or any intimacy relationship of any kinds, it simply a business transaction between the both of us!” “Wait a minute! You mean…?" She said, looking puzzled. "A contract marriage between the both of us”.

Something that made me marvel at her charm. My eyebrows moved to dispel my awkwardness of being silent and watching him as he nodded in response to my question. "What is there to talk about us?" About us. Why do I now feel it taboo to mention it with my mouth as if it's unusual and so out of the ordinary? For a moment, I was excited because there was the word we between him and me? It's just that I clearly remember why the word we could be mentioned by her was based on cooperation between us, nothing less and nothing more.

I had to find a way to make it not sound so harsh, but still enough for him to understand that I could never there is an “us” between us..

"Us, what do you mean?, I thought-" "The fake us." I tell him. "The bet, our relationship, your friends are talking we need to come towards a compromise." "Oh." His voice filters to my ears disbelief. embedded in such a simple sound. "I thought you didn't want anything else to do with me." "And let everything go to waste, something has got to work out." I tell him. "Where do we meet?" He says simply his tone suddenly cold and somewhat business like. "I'm by the Park, the first spot we met." I tell him.

Which meant they had a usual room, which meant something about the nature of a life that was putting down roots in multiple places. Elian said this on the way upstairs. "We have a usual room," he said. "Yes," Dante said. "In Brussels," Elian said. "We have a usual room in Brussels." "Yes," Dante said. "That's — " Elian paused. "That's a different kind of usual than I've ever had. I've had usual routes out of cities. Usual document protocols. Usual safe channels." He paused. "Not usual rooms." "The usual rooms are better," Dante said.

People and noise and the indifferent machinery of urban life. But something had shifted in the specific atmosphere between us. We'd been many things to each other. Boss and assistant. Sisters in all but name. Colleagues. Friends. Now we were about to become something else too. Mothers together. The next version of us. Already beginning. Whether we were ready or not.

"Okay then, it's the two of us." ***

Gasps could be heard for a second time, this time louder. The great Mr Fisher whose name alone is more popular than ten celebrities fame put together, who has nothing known about him except for his last name, whose company is the largest in the whole of America, is about to address them, no one could hold their excitement right now. They'll imagined being one of the few people who will get to see this great man first hand and up close even