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“Yeah, that,” Caroline added.

“Cool,” Kyle said and smiled genuinely at Caroline.

Enid pulled out Caroline’s chair, and Caroline smiled at her before she sat down.

“What do you want to drink? I’ll grab it,” Enid offered.

“Oh. Whatever you’re getting.”

“Water,” Enid said.

“That’s fine,” Caroline replied.

“Be right back,” Enid told her and squeezed Caroline’s shoulder before she walked off.

“So, what do you do, Caroline?” Sophie asked.

“I’m in school.”

“Grad school with Enid?” Melinda asked.

“No, undergrad. I’m about to be a junior. Same school, though.”

“What’s your major?” Kyle asked.

“I don’t have one yet,” she said, fully prepared for that question because she got it from everyone.

“Don’t you have to declare by junior year?” Rory asked as she sat down next to Sophie.

“Yeah. I’m doing summer sessions right now, but I’ll be a junior in the fall, so I’ve got to declare soon,” Caroline said.

“How did you and Enid meet?” Melinda asked.

“Um… Technically, we met at a bar in the Quarter,” she said.

“Yeah?” Melinda asked.

“We bumped into each other there but didn’t officially meet until we met on campus at a career fair.”

“God, I don’t miss those,” Kyle commented.

“Me neither,” Sophie said. “That pressure, when you’re in school, to know exactly what you want to do and walk up to strangers at those booths to try to see if they have an internship or something you could do in case you got nothing else when you graduated.”

Caroline laughed a little under her breath, even though she didn’t think it was all that funny because that washerlife right now, and she really felt everything that Sophie had just mentioned.

“Here you go,” Enid said and, thankfully, sat down next to her.

“Thanks,” Caroline replied and took a long gulp of the much-needed water.

Enid wrapped an arm around the back of Caroline’s chair, and Caroline placed her hand on Enid’s thigh. Enid talked with her friends for a few minutes before Logan joined them and sat down by Rory while she was on her break.

“We’re here. What did we miss?” a woman said, walking in, holding hands with another woman.

“That’s Linden.” Enid pointed to the blonde with blue eyes on the left. “Asher is her girlfriend.”

“Remind me,” she whispered.

“The friends who just started dating. They’re wedding planners.”

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