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“I guess. I don’t know.”

“You should talk to her, Rory,” Enid suggested. “She’s your girlfriend. She loves you. You need to be able to talk to her about this stuff.”

“We both have a lot going on right now.Shehas a ton going on.”

“She works at the bar. That’s all I really know about. What else is she doing? She’s not in this school thing yet.”

Rory was clearly holding something back, which worried Enid, but she didn’t want to pressure her to say anything with Logan standing about twenty feet away from the table.

“I need to ask her if I can talk to you about it, okay?”

“Are you okay? Is she?”

“It’s fine,” Rory told her. “I promise. Everything’s fine. Logan is so good to me. I’m crazy about her, okay?”

“Sorry. She just wanted to see if I was free to talk tonight,” Logan said as she sat back down.

“Why tonight?” Rory asked.

“I don’t know that there’s a specific reason. I just got the idea that my dad would be out tonight. He probably has a bowling night or something. I told her I was working but that I could call her on my break.”

“That’s great,” Rory said and put her hand on Logan’s thigh.

“It’s progress,” Logan replied. “So, are we still talking about Jill?”

“Yes,” Rory replied quickly. “Enid is making a reservation.”

“Oh, yeah,” Enid said and returned her attention to her phone. “What does Jill like?”

“You could always text her and ask,” Logan suggested.

“Now, where’s the fun in that?” Enid joked. “Is she a vegetarian or anything?”

“No,” Rory said. “I’ve seen her eat meat and seafood, too.”

“Okay. I can’t afford a fancy place. I barely have enough money to put gas in my car until I get a job somewhere,” Enid shared. “Think she’ll mind if we go somewhere kind of middle-of-the-road tonight?”

“She’s not a fancy person, Enid,” Rory said. “She lives off of Po-Boys, mostly.”

“And food from the bar,” Logan added. “I’ve seen her put away a burger.”

“Okay. Maybe burgers, then,” Enid said as she searched on her phone.

“Why don’t you sound excited?” Rory asked.

“I’m excited,” she said, hoping it sounded convincing.

Shehadbeen excited. Enid had thought a little about Jill yesterday while she’d been sitting at the booth, waiting for anyone to express interest. Jill was beautiful and funny. She was also friends with Rory, and Rory was a good judge when it came to people. If Rory was excited that Enid was going out with Jill, Enid knew she should be, too. Instead, she was busy thinking about Frank the Fridge and how jealous Tim the TV must be of Larry the Laptop because Caroline watched her movies on that and not on Tim. It was silly and cute, and Enid had gone to sleep thinking about Caroline’s laugh and not Jill’s.

“Are you okay?” Rory asked.

“I’m fine. I just need to make a reservation, apparently, and I wasn’t planning on doing that. I thought I would pick her up, and we’d find a place together.”

“Don’t you want her to think you put a little thought into it?”

“Babe…” Logan spoke up then. “Everyone’s different. Maybe Enid is a little less on the planning side and was being spontaneous.”

“Yeah, I wanted to be spontaneous,” she lied.

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