Page 19 of My Fiancé's Brother
“We have a new houseguest who’s an old friend of Matt’s.”
“Matt has friends?”
There wasn’t a lot of love lost between Beth and Matt.
“Ha, funny, Beth. The new houseguest is staying with us for three months.”
“WTF! That’s such a dick move on Matt’s part. He doesn’t help you plan the wedding but decides to add a houseguest to the mix?”
“I was caught off guard.”
“So is this guy as douchy as the rest of Matt’s posse?”
A fair question, since most of Matt’s friends were complete nightmares at the best of times.
“Even worse. He’s…attractive.”
I could hear Beth thinking. “Like how attractive?”
I winced. “Remember the crush I had on the hockey player in the second-year of university?”
“Now that guy was stupidly hot. No one could blame you for that. Even I drooled a bit when I saw him.”
“It's possible this guy is hotter than the hockey player.”
“Shut up. Impossible.”
I scrunched up my face. “You know my thing about big, athletic guys. I get all weird.”
“What kind of weird? Like the need to rip your clothes off kind of weird, because I'll stand behind you on that one.”
“Beth! Remember how bad my crushes were?”
“Mmmm…..I was there. If anything you were committed. No one could fault you on that.”
“I obsessed over the hockey player for almost a year before I had a conversation with him.”
“Oh my God, I forgot that you got up the balls to speak to him once.”
“Those crushes were endless fodder for my therapist. They were deemed unhealthy.”
“What did your therapist know? I'm pretty sure she wore orthotics.”
I laughed again. “I can feel it.”
“What?”
“These butterflies inside of me. The dry mouth. The pitching of my stomach. I can’t carry on a normal conversation.”
“Aw, are you developing a crush?”
“Beth. He’s my houseguest. He’s living with me. I can’t be crushing. I'm engaged.”
“Sweetie, I love my man, but if you knew the number of times I had fantasies about Kurt Browning, you would be stunned.”
Beth harbored her own little crush on a particular aging Canadian figure skater. “Isn’t Kurt getting a bit long in the tooth?”
“First of all, he’s perfect, and secondly, the heart wants what the heart wants.”
