Chapters (36)
- Copyright Page
- About the Author
- By Cara Bastone
- Praise for Cara Bastone
- About the Book
- Dedication
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- Chapter Nineteen
- Chapter Twenty
- Chapter Twenty-One
- Chapter Twenty-Two
- Chapter Twenty-Three
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Read on for a taste of Call Me Maybe
- Chapter One
- Look out for more Love Lines from Cara Bastone!
- Find out more about Headline Eternal
- FIND YOUR HEART’S DESIRE . . .
“It’s a care package subscription service. It started out as me putting together date ideas and supplies for people. You know, roses, chocolates, movie tickets, bottle of wine, that sort of thing. But then it expanded to more personalized dates as well. Hot air balloon ride tickets, or books to read out loud to one another. I even send outfits to some clients. And after a while, I realized that it didn’t just have to be romantic, either. I have Friend Date in a Box. Family Night in a Box. I even have a Break-up in a Box.”
“A break-up? Wow. What do you send in that box?”
“Lots of tissues.”
“Ha. That only works if the person is sad about the break-up though.”
“True. I guess in some of my break-up boxes I should send along celebratory things.”
“Like . . .”
“Mmm, maybe an appointment to get their hair dyed a new and surprising color. New lingerie so that they can throw out all the . . . pre-used . . . shall we say? What else? Driving directions to a really great view of some kind so they can look hot with their new hair and undies as they gaze out across the landscape and contemplate their unencumbered future.”
“Wow, you are really good at this. Do you pack and send the packages yourself?”
“Right now, yes, but the website was step one toward being able to outsource some of the grunt work.”
“How so?”
“Well, so far all the information I have about clients and all the ideas for their specific packages has just lived in my head. But with the website, there are all these different components that help clients figure out what kind of package they might want and when and where to send it et cetera. So, it would be a lot easier to bring on other people to help me because they can use the information we gather from the site instead of having to mine it from my brain.”
“Man, we’ve really gotta get this site up and running for you, huh?”
“Yes. Preferably by Friday at eight a.m. Oh! The update just switched over to ‘finalizing.’”
“Great.”
“Oh, look! My computer’s back on and all my beautiful tabs are loading again.”
“I’m getting hives from thinking about your tabs.”
“Oh, hello, again. I’m accepting your invitation to mirror share.”
“Hi, Tasha? I’m a thirty-year-old female calling from a small midwestern town. I have a question about how to get my boyfriend to do a threesome—”
“Ooooookay. Paused it. Wow. Sorry about that, Cal. One of my tabs started playing when it reloaded.”
“What was that?”
“It’s that relationship advice podcast? The one with Tasha Brooke. Have you ever listened to it?”
“I’ve heard of it, I think. But I haven’t listened . . . She gives relationship advice about threesomes?”