Kara somehow conned me into going shopping with promises of burritos and Coronas at Harry’s, and I foolishly believed her. She even offered to pay. I should have known better… or at least upped my fee. So I got dragged across the Upper West side for a few hours, with no black beans in sight. She dragged me to Urban Outfitters and I was starting to get impatient. She kissed my cheek and promptly told me to shut up. It was then when a shop girl came up and asked if me or my girlfriend needed any help. Kara promptly corrected her adding in that I was a smart, cute, funny, charming, available guy. There was an awkward silence, which I broke by saying, “She never said I was a great conversationalist.”, which broke ice and eased tension. This was when Kara asked to borrow Jess’s phone.
She fiddled with it for a few moments and handed it back to her, before saying, “There you have his number, now call him.” She took dialed me almost immediately, and we both just kind of laughed at the awkwardness of the situation, and Kara vanished. I apologized for her, and the girl introduced herself as Jess. We talked for a bit until I realized that Kara had completely left the store…and turned her phone off. I was pissed, and Jess noticed. She meekly mentioned how she was out of work in fifteen minutes, if I wanted to stick around.
Thirty minutes later, she actually got out, and we went to get burritos… I may have been on an unexpected date, but I was still intent on sour cream & Jack cheese. There were a lot of awkward pauses and lots of joking about Kara. She kept saying how she still couldn’t believe the boldness of her, and I just said, “Yeah, it’s been years and neither can I.” And she asked how I was available, and I mentioned that I was kind of labellessly seeing someone, and trying to play the field. She just joked that she was a notch on the bedpost. “No, not the bedpost, the sofa at least.” She laughed, and I thought about how that technically wasn’t that far off. She was just 60 of 100, or whatever the actual number is at this point.
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