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“Better, obviously. My guess is that you’re not sharing that full bed with your ex-girlfriend.”

“Definitely not. My mom would try to make us breakfast every morning and ask when we’re getting back together so that she could then ask when we were getting married.”

Jill’s laugh continued. Then, she took a drink, probably to stall her response a bit.

“Why not?” she said when she set her cup down. “Let’s go out.”

“Yeah?” Enid asked.

“Sure. I’m not exactly a catch either, to be honest. I leave my dirty clothes all over my apartment, and I don’t always do the dishes, so they’re usually stacked in my sink.”

“If that’s the only downside, I think I can risk it,” Enid teased.

“Want to dance, then?” Jill asked.

“Not much of–”

“A dancer, I know. Come on. It’s just dancing.”

Enid nodded, deciding that if she were going to break out of this funk, she needed to do something different.

CHAPTER 4

“Hey, want to grab lunch?” Jodie asked her.

“Not really,” she said without turning around. “Have I mentioned how much I hate studying?”

“Yes, a few dozen times since… yesterday,” Jodie replied and walked into Caroline’s dorm room. “Did you have fun last night?”

“I guess, yeah,” she said, turning when Jodie sat down in Viv’s empty chair.

“Where’s Viv?”

“I don’t know. Class, probably.”

“Let’s grab lunch. I’m starving.”

“Go get lunch, then.” Caroline laughed at her.

“Not in the dorm cafeteria. Somewhere else. Let’s go grab barbecue or tacos or something.”

“I have studying to do so that I can write a paper.”

“I will help you study if you come to eat with me.”

“Fine. But you’re buying,” Caroline said as she slammed her book closed. “We should get barbecueandtacos, then.”

Jodie laughed and asked her, “Did youactuallyhave fun last night? I danced with a couple of people while you stood still for, like, an hour, and I found you in the bathroom line.”

“I told you that I didn’t really want to go out,” Caroline replied and stood. “I got a free drink out of it, at least.”

“Yeah,mydrink,” Jodie remarked and stood as well.

“You left it with me,” she pointed out and grabbed her purse. “And you looked like you were having fun. You danced with that one girl for, like, three songs.”

“She was cool,” Jodie said. “She asked me if I wanted to go back to her hotel.”

“Tourist?”

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