Veronica
I half expected him not to show up. It’s not Henry’s fault. I made the whole thing weird, right? Talk about making my life more complicated when it didn’t have to be! Before Henry arrived, Vicky let me have it.
“You’ve been dating Henry Rhames all this time and didn’t tell me?” she said a little hurt. “When did you even find the time?”
“It’s a long story that I’d rather not get into,” I deflected. “But with Jenny and Billy--- I didn’t want to tell her, so I didn’t want to put you in that position.”
“But now you are?” she asked, not understanding.
“Well, I ran into him and his grandmother at my job interview. I couldn’t avoid them and--- Now that they know, the whole town is going to know. I just didn’t want you to hear a rumor or Jenny, ya know?” I said a bit fluste
