“You can have a bite of mine.”
She nodded. “Okay. Thank you.”
I got to work fixing dinner which consisted of chips, a sandwich, and lemonade.
By the time I’d slid Birdee’s sandwich onto her plate, my front door was opening and Cody was walking inside.
“Yo, hos,” she said as she barreled toward us. “What’s poppin’?”
My brows went up. “Are you subbing at the middle school again?”
“High school.” She flashed me her beauty queen smile. “What’s up? Not that I’m complaining if you’re going to feed me.”
“Well, mainly, I just wanted to share what I found,” Birdee explained. “I went to clean out my room at the mansion since they’re moving everything out in preparation of getting kicked out. Tom wanted me to get everything out before he dumped it. He’s really mad at us, by the way. He thinks we betrayed him. Anyway, so I’m getting everything out, and I take my computer that was hooked up to their network. Only, it wasn’t my computer.”
“Whose computer was it?”
She pulled it out and handed it to me. “My mother’s.”
I stared at it. “Oh.”
“I was going to ask if you wanted to give it to your man’s computer friend.”
I grimaced at that. “Well, that’s going to be hard since I haven’t seen him in a week.”
“What?” Cody asked. “Who?”
“Romeo?” Birdee asked.
“Romeo,” I confirmed.
“Why?” she asked. “Have you called him? What if he’s dead in a snowdrift somewhere?”
“That’s not the case,” I admitted. “His horses are gone. His house is cleaned out. And he put a leave of absence in at work. Paul Junior told me about that today.”
Both women stared at me. Both equally sisters in their own right.
Though, Birdee was clearly nowhere near as close to me as Cody.
“That’s fucking bullshit,” Birdee declared. “Who just leaves like that and doesn’t say goodbye?”
“We never made any promises to each other,” I admitted. “We just slept together. That’s it. We didn’t exchange any promises or words other than very shallow thoughts. He didn’t know how I felt about him at all.”
“I don’t know what to say,” Cody scowled. “That really pisses me off.”
“Did we just agree on something?” Birdee looked at Cody.
Cody flipped her off, and Birdee smiled.
I, on the other hand, looked between the two like they were nuts.
“Did y’all become friends without me?” I asked.
Because I wasn’t quite there yet with Birdee. Every time I looked at her, I felt like I was looking at an enemy.
That wasn’t something that I could just turn off overnight.
“Not quite yet,” Cody admitted. “Maybe we’ll get there. We can bond over the bullshit that is Romeo.”
