Chapter Nine
Love Learned
“I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.”
– Alice Walker
“There you are!” Mia exclaimed as I walked into our dorm room. She was sitting on cross-legged on her bed dressed in a pair of filmy pink high-cut panties and an oversized T-shirt. “Where’ve you been? I was looking for you everywhere.”
“There’s your problem: I haven’t been everywhere. I was over at the hospital looking in on Milly.”
“Oh.” She blinked a few times and licked her lips as she always does when she’s nervous. “That was nice of you. How is she?”
“Better than I would have thought. She’s made a breakthrough, I think.” I told her of our conversation, and her career ambitions. When I mentioned her recommendation, Mia’s eyes sparkled, and she pointed at several shee
