Page 62 of An Unexpected Home

“But it was an issue for you,” Leah said.

“Can you stop being reasonable and let me just be pissed?”

“So sorry your highness, please go on.”

Carly flipped her off but went on. “Anyway, so there I am, nude as the day I was born and he has the audacity to not even glance down my body. Just stared straight at my face.”

“Ahh,” Mel fake gasped, “the nerve.”

“All right, I’m done talking to you bitches. You aren’t taking me seriously.” She turned in her chair.

“Okay, okay,” Mel said. “We are sorry. Please tell us why him being a gentleman and not ogling your body is an issue?”

“Because I look fucking good!” she shouted. “I am never gonna look better than I do right now and yet I can’t even get a guy who accidentally sees me naked to look at my body.”

Now Leah saw the problem. “So in all actuality, you wanted him to look at your naked body?”

“I wanted him to WANT to look!”

“First off,” Mel said, “you’re a crazy person and you might want to think about therapy. Second, I’m betting he looked.”

“I was there,” Carly snapped back. “He didn’t look.”

“Are you that stupid, of course he looked. Your body is amazing.”

Leah agreed. “I wish I had your body. I’m all bones and ass. Plus, I’m short and it sucks.”

Carly looked at them skeptically. “You really think he looked?”

“I know he looked,” Mel told her.

“Hmm,” Carly said seemingly thinking about it.

“Not to get us off track from Carly’s naked dilemma, but can we talk about work for a second?”

After they both agreed she went on. “I’ve been going over the registrations and it seems we are full for this first session.”

“Full?” Mel said.

“Yep, full.” They were currently only offering classes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and only a total of fifteen classes. But somehow, they were all at capacity.

“How is that possible?” Carly asked.

Leah shrugged. “No idea but it looks like people are willing to take a chance on a new business.”

“Should we open more?” Melanie asked.

“My suggestion is that we see if all these people re-enroll before we offer more classes. That way we aren’t making more work for ourselves down the line if there is no need.”

“Smart,” Carly said.

“Another thing,” Leah said. “Brandon mentioned that maybe we should think about getting a security system here, at the studio?”

“Can we really afford that?” Melanie asked.

“Not really, at least not yet but, and let me finish before you get annoyed.” At both of their looks she went on. “I took the liberty of talking to Tony and he said that he would be willing to set us up on a payment plan AND that since we are friends with Logan he would do the install at cost again.”

“Fuck me,” Carly said. “Now I can’t be mad at him for the no-look. Why does he have to go and be so nice?”

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