Ode to Murder by Nicole Dieker

Author:Nicole Dieker
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733691956
Publisher: Shortwave Media

Larkin went back to her mother’s home for lunch, because she wasn’t going to ask Ed to treat her and she didn’t have the money to treat herself. After she and Ed had looked at each other and mutually agreed not to comment on what they saw, the conversation had grown stagnant; it had been a relief when Ed had said that he needed to get ready for his next class. Larkin was still wearing Ed’s T-shirt, her own coffee-stained blouse sloppily folded and tucked into the leather portfolio that also contained two cream-colored copies of her resume. She had told Ed she’d wash his shirt and bring it to the next rehearsal.

In other words, they had promised to meet again.

But first Larkin had to get the shirt off her body and into the washing machine without her mother asking her whether she’d joined the YMCA. She got as far as the kitchen—and although Larkin had hoped her mother would be in her office or at the campus dining hall or literally anywhere else, she realized, as soon as Josephine looked up from her laptop, that she was glad to see her there. She was also glad that her suit jacket covered the majority of what she wasn’t supposed to be wearing.

“How did the interview go?”

“It was fine,” Larkin said. Her mother must have come home specifically to ask—which didn’t irritate Larkin as much as it would have, even three hours ago. “I didn’t get the job.”

“You don’t know that.”

Larkin wondered how long her mother had been waiting at the kitchen table. If she’d gone into the office at all. “Yes, I do. They want someone with more administrative experience.”

“Did you tell them—”

“Yes,” Larkin said. “I told them I could learn, I said I was eager, I did all the things, and I didn’t get the job. And that’s fine.” It really was, in a way that it hadn’t been before Larkin had spent the morning with Ed. “And I wanted to say that I was sorry. For inviting Claire to the party.”

Larkin knew, even before her mother spoke, that she was forgiven. “I’m sorry, too. For setting up the interview without asking.”

“It turned out okay, though,” Larkin said. “I ended up running into Ed. I mean, Dr. Jackson.”

“I know who Ed is,” Josephine said. “I helped hire him.”

Larkin had been just about to ask her mother what she thought about Ed, and how long she’d known him, and whether she thought he was smart and funny and interesting, and whether the rule about directors not kissing the people they direct could be broken since Maestro Kimbrough was technically in charge of the choir now. But she couldn’t ask any of that, because if her mother agreed with it all and she and Ed did end up dating and then they broke up, it could affect Ed’s job. His tenure file. His entire career.

“Well, we had a good talk,” she said instead.

“I just had a good talk too,” her mother said.

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