Would Margot meet me at the airport, or would I have to find my own way to the hostel? And also I’ve never even left the country before. He’ll have to let me.” But it’s true that I’ve never flown by myself before. Between coughs I say, “Margot, let’s meet in Paris for my spring break!” I’m already picturing myself twirling with a pistachio macaron in one hand and a raspberry one in the other. What I wouldn’t give to be that girl in that tissue-paper dress running around Paris in springtime! I sit up so suddenly I choke on a kernel of popcorn. Josh popped a big bowl of popcorn, and I devote myself to it, handfuls and handfuls of it.Ī commercial comes on for perfume: a girl is running around the streets of Paris in an orchid-colored halter dress that is thin as tissue paper. Margot and Josh are on the couch I’m lying on the floor, watching TV. Humming to herself, she says, “When Daddy asks me what I want for Christmas, I am just going to say, ‘Pick any one of these breeds and we’ll be good.’?” We are in the living room, Kitty is pasting pictures of dogs to a giant piece of cardboard. If I had to say why Margot loves him, I think maybe I would say it’s because we all do. But then Kitty will wear him down and he’ll run out and buy some, because that’s Josh. Inevitably there won’t be crunchy peanut butter and Josh will say too bad, pick something else. They make deals with each other-if I win this next hand, you have to make me a toasted crunchy-peanut-butter-sandwich, no crusts. Kitty loves Josh because he’ll play cards with her and not get bored. My dad tried to take us fishing once, and I cried when my shoes got mud on them, and Margot cried when her book got wet, and Kitty cried because Kitty was still practically a baby. He also likes Josh because Josh likes comics and he’ll go fishing with him. My dad is an ob-gyn, and he also happens to be the father of three daughters, so it’s like girls, girls, girls all day.
I mean it: all day long he is surrounded by females.
My dad loves Josh because he’s a boy and my dad is surrounded by girls. He moved next door five years ago but it feels like always. I say always, but I guess that’s not true. Before he was Margot’s boyfriend, he was just Josh. JOSH IS MARGOT’S BOYFRIEND, BUT I guess you could say my whole family is a little in love with him.
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