My Bestie’s Dad Likes Me Wet
He smiled at me in that way people do when they’re trying not to look nervous, fiddling with the edge of his menu like it might run away.
“You look… nice,” he said, and it wasn’t smooth. It wasn’t Grant’s brand of cutting praise that felt like a threat and a caress at once. It was clumsy. Human. Sweet.
“Thanks,” I muttered, eyes scanning the drink list even though all I wanted was water.
And then he started talking. About books. About poetry, actually, which was almost worse, because he wasn’t quoting the generic lines every guy on the internet reposted.
He was dissecting, Really Dissecting. Like he actually read them.