“The purple squirrel won’t come if I’m chewing.”
Tomorrow, she had a shift at the campus coffee shop. But Friday? Friday, the Millers were going out of town. And they had a hot tub. fucking the babysitter
She wandered into the primary bathroom—something she’d never admit to her mother. The heated floors clicked on as she stepped inside. She opened the medicine cabinet. Not to snoop for secrets, but to experience the aesthetic . Dr. Barbara Sturm serums lined up like little soldiers. A gua sha tool. A jade roller. Chloe took a deep breath, then dabbed a pea-sized amount of the $180 eye cream under her own tired, student-schedule eyes. It felt like cold butter on toast. Decadent. Wrong. Perfect. “The purple squirrel won’t come if I’m chewing