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There was no use denying it. Everyone knew she’d been dating Knox for a few weeks.
“Do you have some superpower like Poppy and it’s rubbing off or something?”
“Nope,” Ivy said. “You had your back to the door and were moving your hips side to side as if you had some song or something exciting going through your head.”
“I was?” she asked.
“Yes, you were,” Ivy said. “Tell me, am I right?”
“You are,” she said. Sage wasn’t used to talking about this with anyone. Maybe when she was younger, but not recently.
Her relationship with Henry she’d kept quiet for a long time.
It’s not like he was her boss, but he was a manager and she didn’t want to be talked about. They’d agreed on that together.
Her family knew though. She’d let them meet him after a few months. Kate knew because Kate was like a sister, but she knew Kate wouldn’t tell anyone and hadn’t.
No one found out until a few weeks after she finally got her long-awaited promotion.
Then one month later everything in her life just exploded and she still had no understanding of it.
How she got wrapped up in it or why she deserved to be made into such a fool over it.
“Tell me about it,” Ivy said.
“Or not,” she said.
“Come on,” Ivy said. “Just a little. I know some of how you guys reconnected which I’ve got to say is the sweetest thing ever. You know I never had any high school sweethearts. I’ve never been to a school dance or hung out with friends at lunch.”
She knew the three girls had lived all over the world, moving with their father’s assignments as a doctor with Doctors Without Borders.
They didn’t have any of the normal average American teenage experiences.
She wasn’t sure she’d give up what she’d gone through even if some of it was embarrassing.
But wasn’t that just a part and a fact of life?
She’d always thought so.
“Okay,” she said. “There isn’t much to say. It’s been a few weeks. We are trying to get to know each other more. Maybe you can understand this next part more than anyone else.”
“What?” Ivy asked. “I love when people say that. It makes me feel as if I fit in more.”
She tried to keep the sympathy out of her eyes when the younger woman said that. She liked Ivy a lot.
When she started here, Ivy was doing a lot of the work that came to Sage and she didn’t want to step on toes or come in and make enemies.
That hadn’t happened because Ivy was just so much fun and sweet and funny to be around.
Ivy confessed to her that she didn’t always feel as if she deserved this job and worked twice as hard but knew there were things she didn’t understand. She wanted to learn and was thrilled to hand them off to Sage and hopefully learn from her.
Ivy was a good backup for her at times and vice versa. She felt they got along well too.
“Knox was the nerdy kid in school that many made fun of.”
“I heard,” Ivy said. “But you were nice to him.”
“I was. But I didn’t look at him as someone I’d date. I was wrong, let me tell you.”
