Five
Call Me Irresponsible
Luca
Most of what I’ve got going on with Amber is a lie. But a little bit of it ain’t. And that little bit soon starts f*****g with my head.
Proximity + frequency + duration + intensity = friendship. Listening + observation + vocalization + empathy = love. Put ‘em both together and you got a relationship.
According to The Like Switch, aka—the only book I bothered to actually read for the Law and Psychology class I took at Princeton, these are the main formulas for getting somebody hostile to like you. Of course, the FBI agent-writer was talking about enemies of the state—but when I compare enemies of the state with Amber Reynolds nee Bella Peretti, there’s not much difference in those hostility levels.
At first, I stayed close. Listened, watched, and observ
