"Thanks!" I said. "Eyeshadow," I shrugged.
He told me he liked my dress too, and I lifted my shoulders again and told him I always wear dresses and it was really nothing special. He started to mope but pulled himself out of it, and I vaguely hoped I’d finally had some success at training him to remember how unbecoming I found his sulkiness.
Later on, when the waiter came to clear our plates, J.D. asked if they had any dessert.
"You want something sweet?" the waiter asked J.D. "Well, here she is!" he said, holding out his arms and presenting me like I was a cake.
"Oh!" we said together, pretending it was true.
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Let It Be Beautiful is a book project by Elizabeth Barker and Laura Jane Faulds. Over the course of nine volumes, Liz and LJ will rewrite every Beatles song (there are 300!) as a story or an essay. A Hard Day's Night is an excerpt from the first Let It Be Beautiful volume, Meet The Beatles.
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