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“I’ve never been. My roommate was telling me.”

“You’re going with her?” Enid asked and took another bite of her waffle.

“No, I was going to see ifyouwanted to go. She’s busy.”

“To mini-golf? I haven’t done that in years,” Enid replied. “I’m really bad at it.”

“Me too, probably. The last time I went, I gave up on one of the holes because I couldn’t get past the windmill.”

Enid laughed and said, “Well, it sounds like fun.”

“Really?”

“Yeah,” Enid said.

“Can I ask you something? Can it maybe be a date?” she blurted out and picked up her own coffee cup to take a drink of the way-too-hot and way-too-bitter liquid.

“A date?”

“Yeah,” she replied after setting her cup back down. “I don’t know. It just feels like maybe we’ve been kind of flirting or something.”

“Or something,” Enid said with a smile.

“Is that a no?”

“It’s not a no, but I should tell you that I’m kind of maybe dating someone,” Enid replied.

“Oh.”

“Nothing serious. We only had our first date last night.”

Caroline nodded and asked, “Are you going out again?”

“We texted after the date, and she asked me out again. I told her yes.”

“Okay. Well, we can still do mini-golf. It doesn’t have to be a date.” Caroline looked down at her waffle and tried to cover the blush on her cheeks that came with the embarrassment of being rejected.

“Would you be okay with me going out with her again but us going out,too?”

Caroline looked up and asked, “You’d date both of us?”

“I don’t know,” Enid told her with a chuckle. “This is new to me. I asked Jill out that night at the bar. I didn’t know I’d be bumping into you again and thatyou’daskmeout.”

“Do you like her? Sorry. Dumb question. You’re going out with her. Of course, you do.”

“We’re going out tonight. Those are my plans before I maybe go to the bar,” Enid said. “But if I’m being honest, I don’t know if I like her like that.”

“Why are you going out with her, then?”

“I feel like I could, or maybe Ishouldlike her like that,” Enid replied. “It’s weird. I don’t know how to explain it. She’s great. She’s a friend of Rory’s.”

“Rory has a lot of friends,” Caroline remarked before she took another bite of her waffle.

“She’s gotten a few new ones recently. It’s a long story. Anyway, I feel like I owe it to myself and to Jill because I already said yes to going out with her tonight, but… I don’t know. I think there might be something here.”

Caroline nodded and said, “I think you’re right.”

“So, I guess I’m asking you if you’d be okay going on a date with someone who’s also going on a date with someone else.”

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