“Hey, Lillian,” Abigail said to the redhead.
“Hey,” she replied.Looked to me and repeated, “Hey.”
“Hey,” I also repeated.
“Lillian is married to Harry Moran,” Abigail supplied.
“Oh!”I cried.“I know Harry.Hi.”
Lillian smiled at me before she and Nadia looked at each other in what I could swear was ashe’s not getting itway.
Back to confused.
“And this is?”Abigail asked after the baby in the stroller.
“Cicely,” Nadia said.
At that, Abigail smiled huge and replied, “I love it.”
“Took a while for me to talk Riggs into it,” Nadia replied.“But I got there in the end.Though, he refuses to address the origins of her name and insists on calling her LeeLee.”
“Can I ask the origin of her name?”I requested.
She threw an arm toward the big windows at the front of the store like that was an answer.
It wasn’t.
Lillian came to my rescue and explained, “Some folks think MP is like Cicely, Alaska.You know, from the showNorthern Exposure?”
“Oh.Right.”It hit me how apt that was, and I grinned big and cried (not too loud, baby sleeping), “Right!”
“Can’t call her Twin Peaks,” Abigail put in, then added, “Definitely not Laura.”
Since Isogot that reference, we all burst out laughing (quietly, again, baby sleeping).
When we stopped, Nadia told me, “Riggs and I got a dog from Hutch.”
“Ah,” I said.
“And I think I nearly broke him because I was intent on looking at Gia as my very big puppy, and he’d spent months training her to be anything but a puppy.He’s good with training dogs.He’s not so good with training soppy women,” Nadia told me.
Through a smile, I asked, “Which kind did you get?”
“Gia’s a Corso.”
“Like Hannibal.So essentially, she’s a puppy and a killer all in one,” I replied.
“Essentially,” Nadia agreed through her own smile.
“I’m just going to keep doing this while you gals chat, is that okay?”Abigail asked as she went back to her spiders.
“Sure,” Lillian said.
“Your shop is awesome.I’ve been meaning to come in here,” Nadia said.
“I’m addicted to Ida’s sugar scrub.”Lillian paused.“And her green tea mask.”
“Ida has some amazing stuff,” I agreed.
