climbing out of the car , i smiled at the memory of the rest of that evening : the ten minutes during which we 'd all dissolved into hysterics over our shared experiences of getting food poisoning at inopportune times , the unbelievable creme br ? lee my mother had served after dinner , and , much later , the way chloe and i had barely made it back inside my house before falling into a tangle of limbs and sweat on my living room floor .