Page 27 of June

“Oh, shit!”

“What?” Rory asked.

“I have a date with Jill tonight.”

“Yes, you do. Did you forget?”

Yes, Enidhadforgotten. How had she forgotten that she had a date with Jill when she’d been the one to ask her out? How had she been so focused on seeing Caroline again that she had forgotten about the other beautiful woman who had actually said yes to a date with her?

“No,” she lied. “I just kind of lost track of the fact that it was today. I’ve been busy. She told you about it?”

“She texted me,” Rory said. “She seems excited, I think. I didn’t know you were into her.”

“We got to talking at the bar after you and Logan left. She’s nice. I haven’t spent all that much time with her, but I asked her out, and she said yes.”

“Want me to come over and help you pick out something to wear?”

“God, no. My parents would know I have a date then,” Enid said. “Besides, it’s casual. We’re just grabbing dinner.”

“Did you make a reservation?”

“No. Was I supposed to?” she asked.

“It’s New Orleans in the summer. Unless you’re going outside of the city or, at least, somewhat away from the tourists, it’s probably going to be packed wherever you end up.”

“Yeah, okay. I can make one now, I guess.”

A phone rang, and Logan pulled hers out of her pocket.

“It’s my mom. Give me a minute,” she said and kissed Rory on the cheek before she stood up and walked away a little bit.

“I thought you said she didn’t talk to her family,” Enid noted as she pulled out her own phone to make a dinner reservation for the date with Jill that she’d forgotten about.

“She didn’t,” Rory replied. “They’re sort of reconnecting now. It’s a good thing.”

“Oh, cool.”

“She’s going to go back to school, too.”

“Who is?”

“Logan,” Rory replied. “She has these certifications that she needs to get again and some new ones that she wants as well, so she reached out to a friend of hers who runs a trade school. She can go back there, and he said he would let her go for free, which is great. Because she’s already done it before, she just has to get some hours and take some tests, I think. I don’t know for sure. She explained it to me earlier, but she was naked in her kitchen, so I wasn’t really paying attention.”

Enid laughed and asked, “Have you talked to her about that thing yet?”

“No.” Rory leaned over the table. “It’s not a big deal.”

“Up to you. But If you want it, you should tell her.”

“I don’t know that I do. I like what we’re doing already. I think I might like that, too, but I know… she used it… before.”

“Yeah, we talked about that.”

“No, I mean…” Rory looked over to check that Logan was still facing away from them.

“Logan had a thing where she kind of used sex to deal with stuff, and that thing was part of herprocesssometimes.”

“Oh,” Enid said. “So, you don’t know if she’d want to do that with you because of it?”

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