“And when areyougoing to start putting yourself out there?”
“To cook dinner?”
“Larissa…”
“Dating? What is it with you and Harlow?”
“Harlow wants you to date?” Aggie asked and looked at her in confusion, which was weird to her, but Larissa shook her head and decided not to think too much about it.
“She wants me to get out of the house more.”
“Well, I agree with that, but I think you should have a focus when you do. Maybe focus on meeting a nice woman who wants tobuyyou dinner once or twice andthencooks you dinner before you stay over at her place for the night.”
“Oh, my God.” Larissa laughed. “I will do that when I want to, thank you very much.”
“What? Get laid? Or just go on a date?”
“Both.”
“You can’t keep yourself cooped up inside your house. And no, I don’t want to hear about the fact that you have a job. We all have jobs, but we still get out and actually talk to people we don’t work with.”
“I’m getting out now. I’m going to the conference room for the interviews.”
“For work, technically. What about for fun?”
“Harlow and I had dinner out the other night. It was fun. I had too much to drink, so she had to put a trash can next to the bed for me, but I was okay.”
“Youhad too much to drink?”
“Yeah.” Larissa laughed a little.
“And Harlow took care of you?”
“She always does. We take care of each other, I think.”
“Harlow is going to find a new girlfriend soon, Larissa. Then, you’ll go through that part of the cycle where you see her less and less and disappear into your books even more. I just want you to be happy.”
“Iamhappy.”
“Right,” Aggie replied. “But fine; I’ll drop it. For now, anyway.”
Larissa rolled her eyes at her sister.
CHAPTER 10
Harlow closed her laptop and shoved it inside her bag, preparing to go home for the day, but she sat back in her chair for another minute because going home meant seeing Larissa; more specifically, going to another interview with her where they would talk to another happy couple about how they fell in love. She clearly hadn’t thought this idea through because while she enjoyed parts of this experience, watching people in love, with Larissa sitting right next to her, was harder than she had thought it would be. It hadn’t ever been this difficult before, but she wondered, as she sat at her desk, if that was because, in the past, she’d always been open to dating other women, thinking one of them would have to be the one for her; that she would be able to get over Larissa by falling in love with someone else. Only that had yet to happen, which was why she’d decided not to bring another woman into this situation until her feelings for her best friend were back to a normal friend level, where she didn’t picture Larissa naked, lying in bed next to her after having rounds and rounds of hot sex.
“Harlow?”
“Huh? What?” she asked and looked up in surprise to find her boss standing by her desk. “Oh, sorry. I guess I zoned out a bit.”
“No problem. Hey, do you have the report I needed?”
“I sent it a few minutes ago.”
“I was just in the kitchen. Must have missed it. Are you okay, though?” he asked.
“Yeah, just tired and ready to hit traffic.”
