Status Updates From Seven Year Itch (Mountain M...

We are oil and water. Fire and ice. Hot or not, I need to remember one thing the next time I want to be nice to her.
Don’t.

Calder about Dakota

Dakota- That escalated quickly, and it was all my fault. I didn’t intend to pick a fight with him right away, but honestly, I was up for hours last night fretting over what he said to me. I don’t know what Calder is after exactly, but whatever it is, I don’t trust it. It’s better for both of us to just continue hating each other until we get off this beach and back to the real world.

Dakota- “The fact that you’re a ten with a cat, Calder, is just . . . unnerving.”

Does the cat make it better or worse in her eyes?

I cast my eyes down and brace myself for whatever numerical value Calder is going to peg me with. “What am I, then? Come on . . . get it over with.”
“You’re a ten,” he says quickly, his eyes fixed intently on me. His focus drops to my chest before flicking back up to my eyes. “You’re a pain-in-the-ass ten.”

Randal said Dakota was an 8 who dropped to a 6
Calder calls her a 10

“Do you want to sleep in this bed or not?”
“Hell yes.” He jumps onto the mattress like a child. “I’m going to sleep like a rock in this thing.”
“Just stay on your side and everyone will have a good night.”
“Whatever you say, boss.”

Calder & Dakota share the bed 🛏️

Dakota- Perhaps my life would have turned out very differently if I’d had unconditional, unwavering support and love. And good examples of love. Maybe then I wouldn’t have been so hyper-focused on getting married and finding my HEA that I would have seen the red flags Randal waved.

Bad parents?
Bad parenting?
Bad childhood?

“What are you looking for?”
My traitorous eyes move to Calder. Damn them. “Just . . . myself again.”
I turn back to find my best friend frowning at me.
“I lost a lot of myself & I’d like to find that girl again. The one who opened her own T-shirt shop fresh out of college & renovated her house all on her own & just killed it at life, ya know?”
“How will you find her again? Do you have a plan?”

Trista’s sister arrives in Mexico

Though, there was something mildly comforting about how easily Dakota fell asleep next to me this afternoon during our second movie. She has this soft little snore that reminded me of Milkshake’s purr.
I guess a little extra human contact isn’t all bad. But I don’t need to get married to have it.