Two Scoops of Spring: A Lighthearted Lesbian Romance by Carie Green

Author:Carie Green [Green, Carie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

​Chapter Six

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The rest of Friday night turned out to be exceptionally busy, with most of the village out and about celebrating the end of the week. The dairy bar was the busiest it had been yet, locking me into a whirling dance of scooping, mixing, drizzling, and sprinkling. The night was so busy that I had to stay open fifteen minutes late just to accommodate all the customers in line. I was left with hardly any room to breathe, and no time to think. After a deep cleaning of the dairy bar, I arrived at the duplex half an hour later than usual, nibbled something without really thinking about it, and collapsed in bed.

​I slept hard, long, and dreamlessly. Having fallen asleep shortly before ten, I woke up early the next morning, with a pounding headache and a growling stomach. Groaning and grunting, I hauled myself off to the shower, where I woke myself up with vigorous splashing of hot water in my face. After a long and thorough cleansing, I cracked a single blind to check the weather, saw that it was another gorgeous day, and dressed in a pretty, springy floral dress. After all, there was no reason I couldn’t look nice while I scooped ice cream. I made a hearty breakfast, ate it with some satisfaction, and was in my work room with my proverbial sleeves rolled up by eight A.M.

​That was when the guilt hit.

​I stood in front of my fridge, head pressed against the cool metal. Images from the previous night kept flashing through my mind; Cait and I laughing as we worked and chatted, the stiffness of Cait’s shoulders as Jack and Mark chatted her up, the look on Mark’s face as I snarled at him. I could feel the anger, the jealousy, and now guilt roiling inside me, making it hard to concentrate on anything.

​Still, I forced myself to open the fridge, grab my freshly purchased milk, and get to work. My body went on autopilot, whipping and mixing and churning as I’d done hundreds of times, freeing my mind up to worry. With all that had happened, I felt guilty for how things had ended with Cait; I could tell that she’d been deeply uncomfortable around Jack and Mark, and she had surely walked away from what was supposed to be a nice evening with a bad taste in her mouth. More than Cait though, I felt guilty, terribly guilty, for how I’d treated Mark.

​Had Mark flirted with Cait, despite the fact that he’d told me he wouldn’t? Yes. Had he torpedoed the best few hours I’d had in a long, long time? Yes. But had he meant to do that? Had he known that he was breaking up something special for me? And did he deserve to have me yell at him over it? No, no, and no.

​Mark didn’t know that I was interested in Cait. He’d suggested that she might be my type, but then he’d gone on to talk about how my focus on my dreams had always precluded me from paying much attention to anyone.

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