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“No, I get it.”

“Do you like it?”

“Being a tour guide? Yeah. I didn’t think that was something I’d be doing for this long, and it’s weird, seeing so many college students come and go all the time while I’m still there, but I like it. I don’t want email folders.” Jill laughed. “I like being out and about. And on the days when I’m a little less social for whatever reason, I can usually work in the office. Mel’s a great boss. The owner leaves her alone now. I’ll probably be promoted to a manager soon, and then, I’ll have my pick of tours to give, and Mel can do more owner things and fewer tours herself, if she wants. We talked, too. She said if I wanted to, one day, we could talk about us owning it together. That’s not something I planned, but it could be really cool.”

“Yeah, that could be cool.”

“I’ve never planned on owning anything,” Jill shared. “Maybe a house one day, and my car, obviously, but that’s a piece of junk, and I don’t use it very much.”

Enid laughed and replied, “I have a car, too, but that’s about all I own at this point. I had to sell the furniture I’d just bought when I moved back, so I’m sleeping on my old bed and using my old desk from high school.”

“I bet that’s fun,” Jill said sarcastically and took a drink.

“Hey, my dance partner left with her girlfriend, so I’m going to go home and call mine,” Sophie said as she walked up to them.

“Is she still in LA?” Jill asked her.

“No, she’s back home for now,” Sophie replied. “These LA trips have been annoying. It wasn’t supposed to be this hard to have time together. I work from home, so I thought I’d be able to go to Tennessee to spend a week with her, and she could come here, but she’s been working on the movie, and she’s in LA, like, one or two weeks a month.”

“Why don’t you join her there?” Jill asked.

“She’s working and not at home either way, and I don’t want to interfere. Besides, she hasn’t exactly asked me.”

“No?”

“She’s been really excited. It’s like she’s found what she wanted to do all along, and I want her to have that.” Sophie smiled. “She finally let me read the first draft of the script, too, and let’s just say, I loved it.”

“Yeah? She made you look good?” Jill asked.

“Yes, she was very kind. They’re already talking about actresses to play us, which is crazy. So, I’m going to go home and call her to see if they’ve got names for me to look up if I don’t know who they are.”

“Have fun, Soph,” Jill replied.

Sophie left them at the table, and Jill quickly caught Enid up on the fact that Sophie and Bryce’s love story was beingturned into a movie by some production company, and Bryce was writing the script.

“Linden and Asher look happy,” Jill said after a lull.

“Yeah, I guess they do. I didn’t know them before they got together.”

“I did. I made out with Linden.”

“What?” Enid said, laughing.

“She’s a good kisser. It wasn’t a big thing, though.”

“Did you and Melinda ever date?”

“Oh, no. I’ve never dated anyone in the group, technically. Linden and I had a lunch thing, but that was the extent of it. We weren’t feeling it, and she was already in love with Asher.”

“Would you maybe want to go out withmesometime?” Enid chanced.

Jill looked over at her as if she hadn’t been expecting that.

“I know I have a full bed, and I share a bathroom with a teenage boy, so that’s not much of a selling point.”

Jill laughed and replied, “Well, I live alone, so if we go out, we’d have my place to avoid the nosy parents and little brother.”

Enid laughed as well and asked, “Am I better or worse than the cute vet?”

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