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“Well, I’m not looking to get married tomorrow, and I’ve dated two people at once, so I know how that goes.”

“You have?”

“Once,” she replied. “Freshman year. I met a girl right when I got here, and we went out for a few weeks before I met someone else. Since we weren’t exclusive, I went out with the other girl, too, for about a month.”

“How didthatgo?” Enid asked.

“Good until they decided that they wanted to date each other and dropped me.”

Enid laughed and said, “No…”

“Yeah. It was fine, though. I realized I didn’t want anything serious with either of them, so it worked out.”

“And then, there was Brooke?” Enid asked.

Caroline quirked an eyebrow and said, “Jealous?”

“You drew her vagina in IMAX 3D, so yeah.”

That made Caroline laugh harder than she had laughed in a very long time, and God, it felt good. Hanging out with Enid like this and talking about what they were talking about felt very, very good.

“There were other women before Brooke. Two more.”

“Did you draw their vaginas, too?”

“No.” Caroline laughed again. “I don’t always draw the female anatomy of the girls I date.”

“How long have you been out?”

“Since high school.”

“Were you ever with–”

“A guy?” No,” she said. “You?”

“No,” Enid replied. “I’ve known forever.”

“Me too,” Caroline shared. “And I’d like to go out with you even if you’re going out with Jill, too. If it doesn’t work out, so be it, but I want to.”

Enid smiled at her and said, “Okay. Well, you have more practice at this than I do, apparently. I have no idea how to date two women at once. How do we do this?”

“Oh, no.” Caroline laughed. “I’m not helping you figure out how to balance me and Jill. But it’s really cute that you thought I would.”

Enid laughed as well and said, “I guess that’s fair. But if we’re going out, I don’t think our first date should be playing mini-golf in the middle of the day.”

“No? I thought it could be fun.”

“It will be, but I’d rather take you out to dinner for our first date, if that’s okay. Maybe for date number two, we could do the mini-golf thing.”

“You’re assuming you’ll get a second date,” Caroline replied.

“Also fair.”

“Enid, I don’t know that we’ll get there, but if you get there with Jill, and we’re thinking about getting…theretogether, I’d want to know. I need to be sure I’m being safe.”

“Oh,” Enid said. “Yeah, I–” She nodded. “We’ve had one date. Nothing even close to that happened.”

“You don’t have to tell me the details or anything. I’d just like to know so that we can–”

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