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The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
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"Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"The trick is to find that one person who can give it back as good as they can take it."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"Watching you pretend to hate the nickname is the best part of my day."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"I have a theory. Hating someone feels disturbingly similar to being in love with them. I've had a lot of time to compare love and hate, and these are my observations.
Love and hate are visceral. Your stomach twists at the thought of that person. The heart in your chest beats heavy and bright, nearly visible through your flesh and clothes. Your appetite and sleep are schredded. Every interaction spikes your blood with adrenaline, and you're in the brink of fight or flight. Your body is barely under your control. You're consumed, and it scares you.
Both love and hate are mirror versions of the same game - and you háve to win. Why? Your heart and your ego. Trust me, I should know."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"I hope it's not too forward of me to say, but your eyes are incredible, Lucy. I die when you blink."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"It's a corporate truth universally acknowledged that workers would rather eat rat skeletons than participate in group activities."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"I want to know what's going on in your brain. I want to juice your head like a lemon."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"All I want to do is kiss you until I fall asleep. I want to slide in between your sheets, and find out what goes on inside your head, and underneath your clothes. I want to make a fool of myself over you."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"What are you imagining? Your expression is filthy."

"Strangling you. Bare hands." I can barely get the words out. I'm huskier than a phone-sex operator after a double shift.

"So that's your kink." His eyes are going dark.

"Only where you're concerned."

Both his eyebrows ratchet up, and he opens his mouth as his eyes go completely black, but he does not seem to be able to say a word.

It is wonderful."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"When you get so little of someone, you take what you can get."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"I love him so much it's like a thread piercing me. Punching holes. Dragging through. Stitching love into me. I'll never be able to untangle myself from this feeling. The color of love is surely this robin's-egg blue."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"I love you, Lucy Hutton. So much, you have no idea. Please be my best friend."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"How You Doing, Little Lucy?" His bright tone and mild expression indicates we're playing a game we almost never play. It's a game called How You Doing? and it basically starts off like we don't hate each other. We act like normal colleagues who don't want to swirl their hands in each other's blood. It's disturbing.

"Great, thanks, Big Josh. How You Doing?"

"Super. Gonna go get coffee. Can I get you some tea?" He has his heavy black mug in his hand. I hate his mug.

I look down; my hand is already holding my red polka-dot mug. He'd spit in anything he made me. Does he think I'm crazy? "I think I'll join you."

We march purposefully toward the kitchen with identical footfalls, left, right, left, right, like prosecutors walking toward the camera in the opening credits of Law & Order. It requires me to almost double my stride. Colleagues break off conversations and look at us with speculative expressions. Joshua and I look at each other and bare our teeth. Time to act civil. Like executives.

"Ah-ha-ha," we say to each other genially at some pretend joke. "Ah-ha-ha."

We sweep around a corner. Annabelle turns from the photocopier and almost drops her papers. "What's happening?"

Joshua and I nod at her and continue striding, unified in our endless game of one-upmanship. My short striped dress flaps from the g-force.

"Mommy and Daddy love you very much, kids," Joshua says quietly so only I can hear him. To the casual onlooker he is politely chatting. A few meerkat heads have popped up over cubicle walls. It seems we're the stuff of legend. "Sometimes we get excited and argue. But don't be scared. Even when we're arguing, it's not your fault."

"It's just grown-up stuff," I softly explain to the apprehensive faces we pass. "Sometimes Daddy sleeps on the couch, but it's okay. We still love you."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"I always thought you'd live underground somewhere, near the earth's core,"
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"Shyness takes so many different forms. Some people are shy and soft. Some, shy and hard. Or in Josh's case, shy, and wrapped in military-grade armor. "Josh,"
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"How somebody can't recognize their own eyes, I'll never know."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"I pull back. "I'm going to have to change my computer password."
"Oh yeah? To what?"
"I-love-Josh."
"4 eva, he replies."
"You cracked my password?"
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"He did not smile back, and somehow I feel like he's been carrying my smile around in his breast pocket ever since. He's one up."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"I'm probably not good at a lot of things, but I will try to be"
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"I tug him down to lie on me properly. "I'm pretty heavy. I'll flatten you." "I've had a good life."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"Truth or Dare," he says. He always knows the exact right thing to say.

"Dare."

"Coward. Okay, I dare you to eat the entire jar of hot mustard I have in my fridge."

"I was hoping for a sexy dare."

"I'll get you a spoon."

"Truth."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"Josh thought you were lying about your date because he can't imagine you with anyone but himself."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"So, how was work? You clearly missed me."

I put my hands on my face in embarrassment and he just laughs a bit to himself.

"It was boring." It's the truth.

"No one to antagonize, huh?"

"I tried abusing some of the gentle folk in payroll but they got all teary."

"The trick is to find that one person who can give it back as good as they can take it." He takes out a pan and begins to fry the vegetables in a single, stingy drop of oil.

"Sonja Rutherford, probably. That scary lady in the mailroom that looks like an albino Morticia Addams."

"Don't line my replacement up too quick. You'll hurt my feelings."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"He taught me things in the space of two minutes that the span of my lifetime did not."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"How long have you done it?"

"Since the second day of B and G. The first day was a bit of a blur. I've always meant to compile some stats. Sorry. Saying it aloud sounds insane."

"I wish I'd thought of doing it, if it makes you feel better. I'm equally insane."

"You cracked the shirt code pretty quick."

"Why do you even wear them in sequence?"

"I wanted to see if you noticed. And once you did notice, it pissed you off."

"I've always noticed."

"Yeah, I know." He smiles, and I smile too. "
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"Shortcake."
"Stop calling me Shortcake."
"Watching you pretend to hate that nickname is the best part of my day."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"He glances over his shoulder, no doubt hearing my insanely loud shoes stop in their tracks. Then he looks again. It's a double take for the record books.

"I'm out stalking," I call. It doesn't come out the way I'd intended. It's not lighthearted or funny. It comes out like a warning. I'm one scary bitch right now. I hold my hands up to show I'm not armed. My heart is racing.

"Me too," he replies. Another cab cruises past like a shark.

"Where are you actually going?" My voice rings down the empty street.

"I just told you. I'm going out stalking."

"What, on foot?" I come closer by another six paces. "You were going to walk?"

"I was going to run down the middle of the street like the Terminator."

The laugh blasts out of me like bah.I'm breaking one of my rules by grinning at him, but I can't seem to stop.

"You're on foot, after all. Stilts." He gestures at my sky-high shoes.

"It gives me a few extra inches of height to look through your garbage."

"Find anything of interest?" He strolls closer and stops until we have maybe ten paces between us. I can almost pick up the scent of his skin.

"Pretty much what I was expecting. Vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, adult diapers."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"Since the moment I saw you. Since the moment you smiled at me, I felt like I was falling backward off a cliff. The feeling has never stopped. I've been trying to drag you down with me. In the worst, most ill-conceived and socially stunted way possible."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"The Kissing Game goes like this, Shortcake. Press, retreat, tilt, breathe, repeat. Use your hands to angle just right. Loosen up until it's a slow, wet slide. Hear the drum of blood in your own ears? Survive on tiny puffs of air. Do not stop. Don't even think about it. Shudder a sigh, pull back, let your opponent catch you with lips or teeth and ease you back into something even deeper. Wetter. Feel your nerve endings crackle to life with each touch of tongue. Feel a new heaviness between your legs. The aim of the game is to do this for the rest of your life. Screw human civilization and all it entails. This elevator is home now. This is what we do now. Do not fucking stop. He"
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

"He sits on the edge of the couch, his hair damp and ruffled in every direction. I turn the page and unfortunately a lurid diagram of an erect penis glares up at me. "I am trying to be a bit more normal." He looks at the page. "How's it working out so far?" "I'm glad this isn't a pop-up book."
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

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