Chapter 13Now: Loren
I hadn’t even realized how much I needed a night out until Koa made the suggestion. My reaction when he brought it up was complicated: embarrassment and guilt (that I hadn’t thought of it); resentment (at the implied critique of my boyfriending); relief (that he’d thought of it).
Previous boyfriend experiences all followed a pattern: get picked up at a club, have s*x, decide you want to do it again, make it a regular thing accompanied by food and the occasional foray into LA nightlife. The boyfriends who’d suggested things like seeing a musical, or even going to a concert, were few. Maybe we never got to that point, or maybe it was simply that I was too busy to feel the lack. My exclusive relationships were exclusive for the same reason: if I was investing time in so
