Laura didn’t mention anything else about leaving, but it was on my mind when I walked into Bite Me! with Vicki the next day. So much so that I wasn’t paying attention to where I was going and ran smack into Sawyer.
“Whoa! You okay?”
I laughed and rolled my eyes at myself. “Yes. Sorry. Got a lot on my mind.”
“Everything okay?”
I nodded. “Yeah. Just thinking about a friend.”
“Someone here?”
I shook my head. “At work.”
“Is she hot?”
“Excuse me?”
He shrugged. “If she’s hot, you shouldn’t be holding out on me.”
I laughed. “Are you really that big of a pig?”
“Nah. I just like to mess with you. But if she’s hot, you definitely should bring her.”
“She just broke up with her boyfriend of two years.”
He shook his head and backed away. “Too much baggage for me.”
“Speaking of baggage, ar
