Page 5 of October
“Ididneed you to call now. What am I supposed to do, Jules?”
“About what?”
“Finley is sitting next to me.”
“Molly, I’m in the middle of a class, and I’m supposed to go with Gwen to walk Carly right now before I go back in. This really isn’t an ASAP kind of thing.”
“It’s a best friend emergency, Juliet.”
Juliet sighed and said, “Molly, ask her out.”
“I can’t. India.”
“They broke up.”
“They’ll get back together. They always do.”
“But they’re not together now, so you can ask her out.”
“I’m HR. I can’t ask her out.”
Juliet laughed and asked, “How many more excuses do you have ready?”
“Oh, at least ten. Probably more if I try hard enough.”
“Molls, either ask her out, move desks in a few weeks so that she doesn’t think it’s about her or something, or moveon.”
“But she’s Finley,” Molly said, finally letting go of the door she’d been holding and moving aside as someone else needed to get in.
“I know.”
“It’s like her being Gwen to you.”
“But it’s not, Molly, because Gwen is my girlfriend. You have liked Finley forever, but you’ve never told her.”
“Because of India.”
“Well, we can go around like this forever, or you could just ask the woman out now that India is out of the picture.”
“She’ll never be out of the picture.”
“Well, you’ll have to take that risk. If not, you’ll never know. I have to go, though. Gwen is waiting for me. I’ll text you later, okay?”
“Yeah, fine,” she said and hung up the phone.
Taking a deep breath first, Molly went back inside. She walked to the kitchen where she planned to pick up a banana and go back to her desk, but she heard a voice she recognized and stopped before turning the corner.
“I stayed there last night,” India said.
“You stayed at her place last night? I thought you two were done,” Lyla, one of India’s peers, said.
“We’re never really done. It’s me and Finley; we’ve been doing this for years now.”
Molly looked down at the floor because she’d been right to tell Juliet that she shouldn’t even bother telling Finley how she felt.
“I don’t know when we’ll get back together, but we always do.”
“Didn’tsheend it this time?” Lyla asked.
