Alice

Selena Kitt

“You’re not listening!” Mattie’s voice jolted Alice out of her daze.

Her head snapped up and she clutched her iPhone, pressing it closer to her ear and mumbling, “I am, I’m listening. Something about neuropeptides being responsible for pair-bonding in humans…”

“That was two paragraphs ago.” Mattie’s mouth sounded like it was barely moving. Alice knew that meant her sister was really mad.

Alice snuggled deeper under her mountainous down comforter and decided to try to lighten the subject a little. “So you’re telling me Wade and I are together just based on brain chemistry?”

Maddie sighed. “I’m trying to finish my dissertation and you want to talk about your boyfriend? Where are your priorities?”

She grinned. “What priorities?”

“Grow up, Alice!”

“I’m sorry,” she apologized, although now she was thinking about Wade-about his big smile and big eyes and big hands that turned her this way and that way, and his big…

“Can I just finish this chapter?” Maddie interrupted her thoughts again.