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“I’m sure Ivy didn’t care for that either. She’s trying to get Dahlia here,” Daisy said. “She comes and talks to me a lot. I think more so with Jasmine still out of work.”
“Do you think Dahlia will?” she asked.
“I’m not sure. I try not to ask too much. I think Ivy just likes to vent and then she is lonely too. I guess I can see her side of it. I mean, I’ve got you.”
Heather took a big bite of her fudge. “Are you worried you won’t have me now?”
“No,” Daisy said. “It’s not like that. Don’t think it. I’m just saying when I moved here I didn’t know anyone and it would have been so much harder if I didn’t have you. You know what it’s like.”
That first month she was here, Heather was by herself. She didn’t mind though since she was more of a loner anyway.
Daisy liked to go out and have more fun and pulled her out more than she would have ever done on her own.
She wouldn’t say she didn’t have a lot of fun because she did and does with Daisy. But she was more of a homebody. She knew Luke was too and it was working for them.
“I do,” she said. “But it didn’t bother me as much.”
“I get it,” Daisy said. “I talk to my mom a lot still. I mean I miss her. She didn’t want me to take this job, but I figured it was time to move on.”
Daisy’s mother was young when she was born. A single mother, and they pretty much raised themselves.
“Does your mother wish you were closer to her?”
“No,” Daisy said. “I don’t think she does even though she says it. She’s dating someone now and I’m happy for her.”
Daisy had never talked about her mother dating before. “Is this a first?”
“No,” Daisy said. “She’s dated over the years but not like she had men in and out of my life. She never lived with anyone either. So I guess dating is about all it ended up.”
She knew Daisy moved a lot too with her mother. Finding better jobs or a nicer place to live. Sometimes just a different change of place. She wasn’t sure she could move as much as Daisy had.
“Do you miss moving as much as you had?”
“No,” Daisy said, stuffing her face more. Sometimes when they talked about Daisy’s childhood, her roommate would eat more. She didn’t know why she realized that now. Like she needed some kind of comfort.
“Slow down. You’re going to choke. I don’t think I can do the Heimlich maneuver on you.”
“You can just beat me on the back with one of your crutches,” Daisy said.
“That might be fun.”
Daisy slowed down her chewing while she grinned. “Sorry. I tend to stuff my face at times. I love my mom and all. We are like best friends now. But when I was a teen I wanted a mother, not another friend. I just didn’t have the most stable of lives, but it’s all good now. I get my mother didn’t have a lot of support in life either.”
“My mother was always a parent and never a friend,” she said. “It’s annoying. I’m not sure what would be better.”
“Having a nice balance would be the best,” Daisy said. “But it seems that is hard to come by.”
“Don’t I know it,” she said.
“Are you going to tell your family about Luke?”
“At some point,” she said.
“Are you embarrassed to be dating him?”
“No!” She sipped her coffee to gather her thoughts. “It’s not that. You know my brothers. They are going to want to look into him and make sure he’s good enough.”
“Not sure they are going to find anything bad or he wouldn’t have had the career he does.”
