You Can Go Home by Mia Archer

Author:Mia Archer [Archer, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-16T23:00:00+00:00

17

Laura

The waitress finally left and I felt like I could kiss the woman. She’d provided a welcome distraction at just the right moment.

I nearly sighed in relief when she’d appeared to take that order. When I turned back to Christine she was hitting me with a look that said this wasn’t over, and I flailed searching for something we could talk about that didn’t involve the awkwardness of talking about what’d happened after that dance.

“So you keep talking about all the fun I’ve been having in the big city,” I said. “Surely it’s not that dead around here. You can’t tell me the dating scene around here is dead.”

She hit me with an odd look. I blushed, but I figured this sort of conversation was better than what she’d been about to ask me.

“There’s not much to say,” she said with a shrug. “I had a few flings. There are a few women around here who never quite came out of the closet, but they’re anonymous grey heads on the usual apps. Most are terrified someone will learn their dark secret.”

“Christine,” I said, clicking my tongue. “Spending your time going after closeted married women?”

She grinned the grin of the cat who’d eaten the canary. Though in this case it wasn’t a canary she’d been eating. Giggity.

She shrugged. “What’s there to say? Besides, it turns out a lot of husbands around here are a lot more progressive about things if they can imagine their wife getting with another woman than they’d be about a guy coming into their bedroom.”

I barked out a laugh. “That’s terrible.”

“It’s terrible, but it is what it is living in a small town,” she said. “That stupid double standard has to be good for something, right? Besides, I only took that arrangement on the rare occasion when I was really hard up for some action, or if it was someone who was really hot.”

“How hot are we talking?” Laura asked.

“Head cheerleader back in the day hot,” I said with a wicked grin.

She grinned right back at me, and I blushed. I also felt something coursing through me that I knew I had no right to. Jealousy.

I was the one who’d left her here, after all. I was the one who decided to go off to college and then to that life in the big city she kept talking about. I was the one who’d missed out on all the fun she was having with other women because I figured it was more important to live my life somewhere other than here.

“You sure you want to pry into this?” she asked.

“Why wouldn’t I?” I asked.

“You had a look,” she said.

“You were the one who was asking about my dating life with the boys from our school,” I said.

She leaned forward over the table. “Yeah, but there’s a big difference there. I know you weren’t into any of the guys you were dating back then. If this is a date then that means there’s no threat from those guys for me.

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