Naturally, both Rachel and Sarah were thrilled by this development. “I knew it wouldn’t take him long to come around,” Rachel said as Autumn fussed with her hair in the bathroom mirror Friday evening. Why was it always on the important days that it wanted to get temperamental, whereas it tended to look magazine-perfect any time she was just lying around the house?
“I think almost two weeks qualifies as ‘long’ in most people’s books,” Autumn remarked.
Rachel didn’t appear dissuaded by that argument. “Well, he probably didn’t want to seem too obvious, or to make people think he was running after you the second Lacey was gone. Two weeks is a nice, respectful interval without making you wait forever.”
This point of view seemed reasonable enough, so Autumn didn’t bother to argue. Instead, sh
