make a pretty good team if I adjust my attitude and stop being silly and
standoffish about everything. I know why I was doing it. I was trying to
listen to my head and obliterate everything else. Chloe also really likes you.
She’s not a difficult kid. She likes everyone well enough, but she’s not
comfortable with strangers the way she is with you. I think that if we got to
know more about each other, we’d actually be a good fit, despite the— uh
— our obvious differences.”
“What are those?”
Taylor kept her hand in Christina’s and sipped her latte with the other.
She obviously didn’t want to talk about differences, but she was going to
anyway. “I guess just our backgrounds. You grew up in the city. I didn’t.
You went to boarding school. I definitely didn’t. Your family has money.
Mine has enough, but my parents definitely aren’t rich. I
haven’t gone to
college. You probably went to an Ivy League school. I’m younger than you,
but I don’t exactly think I have less life experience. Just different
experience. Although I did grow up in a small town, so maybe that’s not
quite true. I imagine New York is really exciting.”
“It’s a nice place,” Christina admitted. When she did, she realized that
she really did miss it. She’d been purposely trying not to think about it so
that she could focus on succeeding in Austin. She didn’t want to get
homesick and not be able to function in her new life.
“We’re very different people, but I think that might make things
exciting,” Taylor said. “Like a challenge, but a good challenge. We could
learn a lot from each other, and everyone says that opposites attract. Maybe
it’s true.”
“What happened last night was— well…”
“I know,” Taylor blurted. “I can tell by your face that you think that I’m
moving too fast. I’m not saying that we have to make a decision about
dating or that we’re freaking in a relationship now because we— yeah. I’m