You want Brenda so badly simply because you're not gay and because you can't have her, she thought, trying to talk herself out of how she felt. She’s a girl and out of your reach, and that makes her all the more attractive. If she was male and easily available, you wouldn’t be interested.
She didn’t believe a word of it.
One day she came into Brenda’s office and she was so engrossed with something on her computer screen that she didn’t seem to notice.
“Brenda?” she said.
“What?” she muttered distractedly.
She gradually came closer, looking over her shoulder. She almost expected to see pornography on the screen.
“Ever been to the Provence region of France?” she said. She was scrolling through a series of small countryside villas.
“No,” Jade said. “It looks lovely. Are you thinking of
