“I fucking knew- wait, what?” Lucy said as she read the text.
Lucy: NO?!
Sam: 🙀 for real?
Zoya: You’re positive?!
Shara brushed the messy purple locks out of her face with a smile.
Wendy texted a pic of Colin cleaning up the popcorn everywhere.
Jamie: What happened?
Shara: Yeah, I’m surprised all that popcorn’s all over the floor and not in his stomach.
“What’s all this?” Angela asked from the doorway.
“Oh you know, just friends hanging out!” Colin smiled.
“What happened to your eye?!” Wendy gasped.
Colin sighed as he held the ice pack to his brand new shiner.
“Ash’s friend didn’t exactly take getting rejected all that well.” Colin sighed.
“Who’s Ash?” Angela asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Just a friend…” Colin smiled.
“And what pray tell do you mean you rejected this friend?” Angela said as she leaned into his face.
“Colin bumbled his way into a double date after Shara ate some bad clams.” Wendy said.
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Colin moved the ice pack to his other eye as he laid down with a heavy sigh.
“I can’t believe he got slugged in the face like that….” Lucy said as she took a bite of coleslaw, “Twice.”
“Yes… it’s a mystery…” Angela said as she picked at her mashed potatoes.
“I’m having a hard time believing that he really turned her down…” Sam said as she took a huge bite of her drumstick. “Seems a little too convenient if you ask me?”
“Can’t we just be happy that he actually said no?” Shara asked.
“I’d have to see it for myself to be sure.” Sam said as she took another huge bite.
Zoya looked over to Colin resting his head in Wendy’s lap, then whispered “How about a little experiment then?”
“I’m listening….” Sam said intently as the brunette and purple haired woman leaned in close to hear Zoya’s hushed idea…