Hello? I Float Like a Butterfly and Think Like a Genius Bee. What Can I Do for You? – Part 05

I kept filling in blacks and laying tone after tone, but there was still plenty of manuscript left. The deadline was tomorrow, she’d said. But damn, this was going to be an all-nighter. Maybe Saras could come help again.

“Hmm, looks like it’ll take a bit longer. Hey, wanna just stay over tonight?”

“What?”

Stay over… at a woman’s apartment? I swallowed hard. It was the kind of thing you only dreamed about. Now that I thought about it, this would be the first time I’d ever stayed at a girl’s place. I got more excited than I’d expected.

Like some overzealous pub waiter, I shouted, “Yes, ma’am, right away!”

All right, I’d need an overnight set. I pulled out my phone and called home.

Ring, ring, click.

“Hellooo?” A cute girl’s voice answered. “I float like a butterfly and think like a genius bee. What can I do