True Believer

“Whirlwind romance” perfectly described our relationship. It had taken Jared two weeks to call me, claiming the eyeliner had smudged into an incomprehensible blur. Eventually he had broke down and asked Roxi for my number. Personally, I think he had gotten my number from her sometime during that first week and used the rest of the time to work up the nerve to call. He was unbelievably cute that way. But that’s not the point of this.

The point is I warned him I didn’t believe. I warned him that I was a lost cause, and there was no changing that. Instead of heeding my warnings, he weaseled his way into my love life and I couldn’t help liking his sweet and unusually shy demeanor. He called me “his little skeptic.” And skeptical I was. Not of him, of course. If I believed in love, which I didn’t, he would be what I believed in.