Dancing The Night Away by Laura Conway

Author:Laura Conway [Conway, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Spencer knocked on Karen’s office door even though it was open. “Hey.”

“Hi,” Karen said, looking up from her laptop, her reading glasses perched on her nose. “You’re here early.”

“I was hoping to talk to you for a minute. If you’re not busy.”

“Yeah, sure. What is it?”

Spencer closed the door behind her. “You know you’re one of only two people that know,” she said, standing somewhat awkwardly in front of Karen’s desk. “About my past.”

Karen nodded but didn’t say anything as she took off her glasses and left them on the desk.

“I haven’t been to a meeting in-” Spencer sighed. She couldn’t even remember when the last time she’d sat down and openly talked about it. “Years.”

“Do you think you need to?”

“No. Yes,” she said with a shrug. “I don’t know. I mean, I’m fine. But, I’m kind of seeing someone. I think.”

“What do you mean kind of?” Karen asked with a smile.

“It’s really early. I just don’t want to screw it up.”

“It’s not your actress. What’s her name? The one who was here-”

“Yeah. It’s her,” Spencer said as she paced the tiny room. “We’ve been dancing together.”

“I noticed.”

“Really?”

“You two look good together,” Karen said. “I recognize her, from that show.”

“Yeah.”

“So, you’re doing more than dancing together?”

Spencer nodded. “I asked her out. Tomorrow night.”

“Oh wow. That’s great, Spence.” Karen smiled as she closed her laptop. “What’s the plan?”

“I don’t know. She’s um... Older than me.”

“Hmmm. I gathered that.”

“Yeah. I want to make the right impression. You know, so she doesn’t think I’m too young for her.”

“Well, if she said yes, you must be doing something right,” Karen said, leaning back in her chair.

“I don’t know about that, but I’ll figure out what we’re doing. That’s the easy part. The hard part is talking about what happened and putting myself out there. She already asked me a simple question about my family, and I just shut down,” Spencer said, her hands on waist. “I don’t know. I don’t want her to think that I don’t want to let her in, but it’s not that easy.”

Karen pushed herself out of the chair and came around to the other side of the desk to give her a hug. “Do you think going to a meeting would help? Get some advice from people who’ve been through the same thing as you?”

Spencer blinked back her tears. They always came out of nowhere when she got even remotely close to the subject of her past. “I probably should. It’s just-”

“Do you want me to go with you?”

“No,” Spencer said. “No, but thanks. It’s not that. A guy that Delaney is friends with goes to the same meeting that I always did. We’re friends. And we’ve been introduced by Delaney, and both of us pretended to have never met before then. It was weird. I haven’t spoken to him properly in years, but he was a good friend when I was younger, maybe eight or ten years ago.”

“He wouldn’t have said anything to her, would he?” Karen asked, sitting on the edge of her desk.

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