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“I’ll text you.”

When Jodie left the room and closed the door behind her, Caroline walked over to her phone, which she’d left on her desk, and checked the notifications. Sure enough, she’d missed the message from Viv from earlier that afternoon, so she typed a quick response saying that she hoped everything was okay and to let her know if Viv needed anything. Then, she set the phone back down and returned to the open closet door, which had the full-length mirror hanging on it. Before she could change out of her towel, though, there was a knock at the door, so she rolled her eyes.

“Jodie, it’s unlocked. What did you forget?”

The door opened slowly.

“Not Jodie.”

Caroline turned and was surprised to see Enid standing there.

“But she saw me at the door downstairs right before I was about to message you, so she let me up,” Enid added.

“Hey. What are you doing here?” she asked.

“I wanted to check on you. I know I could’ve called or texted, but I thought that doing it in person might be better.” Enid looked Caroline up and down. “You’re in a towel.”

“I just took a shower,” she said with a smile.

“It… looks good on you.”

Caroline laughed, and Enid continued to look her over. It was clear what was on her mind. Caroline wanted to keep laughing, but she couldn’t. It had suddenly gotten very hot in her room, and Enid’s eyes raking over her skin weren’t exactly helping her cool off.

“Um…” Caroline began. “I’m sorry about last night.”

“You don’t have to apologize,” Enid said.

“I got overwhelmed by everyone having their lives together.”

“I don’t havemylife together,” Enid noted.

“You’re in grad school, and you’ll find a job right when you graduate, Enid.”

“You don’t know that.”

“Yes, I do. At least you know what you want to do.”

“You’ll figure it out, Care. And it doesn’t matter to me if you stay in school forever, decide to become an artist and station yourself on the Square, selling your stuff, or you become a lawyer or a doctor or something.”

“Do you mind closing the door?” Caroline asked with a smile. “I’m kind of only in a towel here?”

“I shouldn’t,” Enid replied, shaking her head.

“Why not?”

“Because the door being open is the only thing stopping me from kissing you.”

Caroline took a deep breath and asked, “You’re not mad about last night?”

Enid shook her head and said, “I loved our date. Besides, you took all the candy with you when you got out of my car, and I’d like to get some of it.”

“You got all of the other prizes,” Caroline said, smiling.

“But I wanted a Jolly Rancher, and you took all of those.”

“That’sallyou want? A Jolly Rancher?” Caroline laughed a little.

“Notall,” Enid replied with darkening eyes.

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