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After breakfast, I walked back to the bedroom and put on my dress and shoes. I didn’t put the garter belt and stockings back on. It seemed a little out of place now.
Brett kissed me before he opened the front door, and I walked to the elevator. While I waited for the doors to close, Brett winked at me. I smiled as the doors slid shut and the elevator took me down to the lobby. When I walked out of the building, I wondered if I would ever be back here again.
In the parking garage, my phone rang. I answered it before putting my key in the ignition.
“Oh good, you’re awake,” Katie said. She sounded exasperated, not unlike how I felt.
“Is everything okay?” I asked.
“Yeah, I guess so. I was wondering if you want to meet for coffee.”
I thought about it for a minute. I was already dressed, albeit in yesterday’s clothes, and having another cup of coffee wouldn’t kill me.
“Where do you want to meet?”
Katie named a coffee shop that wasn’t too far from where I was, so I told her I would meet her there. I drove to the coffee shop directly. My apartment was on the other side of the city, and it would be pointless to drive all the way past the coffee shop only to drive back again.
“What’s up?” I asked Katie when we were sitting down. We had ordered coffee. I felt a little out of place in last night’s dress in the coffee shop.
“I went on a date with Shane last night,” Katie said.
“How was it?” I had noticed Shane checking Katie out when we were at the bar on Thursday night, but I hadn’t realized the attraction had been mutual. Katie had never been shy around men, but they had seemed more like good friends than potential lovers.
“It was good… We slept together.”
My mouth dropped open a little, and I blinked at Katie.
She blushed. “Don’t look at me like that. This is hardly the first time I went home with a guy.”
“You’re right, but this is the first time you feel the need to tell me immediately. What makes this so different?”
Katie shrugged. “I have no idea. Maybe it’s because you confessed to me first.” She smirked at me, but I knew that wasn’t the reason. I wondered if she cared for Shane more than any of her other pursuits.
“Are you planning on seeing him again?” I asked.
“I don’t know, I don’t understand him. He seems like a really hectic playboy. Even if he does invest himself in me, I’m not sure if I want to be with someone like him.”
“And the reason you are thinking about that is you feel something,” I said, attempting to finish Katie’s sentence for her.
“That’s the thing, I don’t know. Sometimes I wonder if I should stop doing this.”
“Stop doing what?”
“You know, sleeping around, falling all over the place without direction. I guess it’s not just about men but my life in general.” Katie shrugged as if she hadn’t just said something very serious.
I was shocked. Katie had always been carefree, going where the wind took her and doing only what she needed to do to have enough money to get through to tomorrow. This adult talk that came from her mouth was out of place and completely unexpected.
“What does that mean?” I asked.
“How the fuck should I know?” Katie said, and then she laughed nervously. “I’m just telling you what’s going through my mind. I didn’t psychoanalyze myself.”
“Well, whatever it is you decide to do, you know I’ll always support you.”
Katie nodded. “That’s why you’re the person I decided to phone when I had this epiphany.” She looked at my outfit as if she noticed it for the first time and frowned. “What are you wearing?”
I looked down at my dress, my mind spinning to find an excuse. “I went out last night.”
“I can see that. You look like a hot mess.” She looked at me with eyes that twinkled, an invitation to tell her everything that had been going on. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do that. She had just told me something huge, and I didn’t want to bother her with my own petty problems. Besides, I had already told her I had slept with Brett the first time. I didn’t think I was ready for another confession.
