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“Well, it can’t hurt to apply to other positions,” Felicia carries on.
I’ve given her something to encourage. Of course, she’s all in. Forward progress and all. I hear Trevor’s car in the driveway. I walk over toward my front window to see him getting out of his car alone.
“Trevor’s home,” I tell Felicia.
“I’ll let you go.”
“What did you call for in the first place?” I ask, realizing I spilled all about my job and Meg and have no idea why Felicia called.
“I was just checking up on you. The wedding’s basically ready to go, except the favors, and you were on my mind.”
“Thanks,” I say. “Sorry I don’t call you more often.”
The favors! I need to work on those. I agreed to make our state candy, chocolate and peanut butter buckeyes. We’ll wrap them in cellophane and put them at every place setting. Maybe I can enlist Trevor to help me—while he’s still available to hang out with me.
“You don’t have to call me more often. I know you love me,” Felicia says.
“I do.”
“Okay. Well, I’ll see you sooner than later considering the wedding is only two weeks away!”
“I’m so excited for you.”
“Me too. And don’t worry, Lex. You’ll get your happily ever after. I know you will.”
I’m glad one of us believes it.
“There is this guy,” I tell her.
I guess all her kind words softened me like butter left out on a counter. I’m letting all my secrets spill today.
“A guy!”
“Calm down. He’s actually on the app. His name is TJ.”
“Same initials as Trevor.”
“I noticed that too. It’s a funny coincidence, huh? Anyway, Laura talked me into getting back on the app.”
“You didn’t tell me. I’d have checked him out for you.”
“Right. Well, he’s nice. We’re only texting for now, but I like him.”
“This is awesome!”
“I’m taking it super slow considering how the past few months of dating have gone.”
“Good idea. And he doesn’t mind only messaging you and waiting to date?”
“So far he seems content to wait.”
“That’s a good sign.”
I smile. Thoughts of TJ still feel like a betrayal to Trevor somehow, but I remember I don’t owe Trevor anything. It’s not like we’re in a committed relationship. He didn’t ask me before he went to help Meg move. And Trevor knows about TJ anyway.
In an ideal world, Trevor would bump his head and the blow would cause a sudden infatuation for me that turned into a longing he couldn’t avoid.
Well, it wouldn’t be ideal for him to bump his head, but the rest of that scenario would be my dream come true.
