Page 54 of Promises We Meant to Keep

“Well,fuckingdidn’t sound right either in my head. I don’t know what to call it. Getting sideways in the sheets? Except it didn’t start in the bed. Hmm…”

“TMI!” Greer was still laughing, her voice trilling through the phone in a wonderful chorus. Oh, how Kamryn missed that sound. She definitely needed to make more time for her life and for her friends.

“Right, so I don’t expect her to open up immediately, but the next morning, she really did do just that. Not with answers to the millions of questions that I have, but with the emotional side ofthings. I’m not even sure if I’m making sense right now. I feel all tangled up.”

“You’re making sense. I promise.” Greer’s tone softened. “You’re smitten.”

“Now who’s using weird-ass words.”

“I couldn’t think of another one to describe it,” Greer echoed Kamryn’s thoughts. “And that’s exactly what you sound like. Currently wrapped up in a new potential relationship and totally lost to the outside world. That’s how it’s supposed to happen, isn’t it?”

“I suppose it is…” Kamryn trailed off. She’d been that way with Lauren once, many, many years ago, when they were so very young. And it hadn’t ever come back, not even when they’d started dating again after a breakup. There was always that distance between them.

“You don’t know?” Greer laughed a little again, that sunshine personality coming through. “But you and Lauren—”

“Weren’t happy together for a very long time. I don’t know if that’s how it’s supposed to be.” Why did that hit her hard? She and Lauren had been in love, hadn’t they? They’d spent so many years trying to make their relationship work, and yet it had still failed. Had they just not put in the effort or had the love been missing all along? “I’m sorry Lauren is feeling jealous because she thinks I’m happy. Was she going to call to wish me well or try to win me back?”

Greer's silence spoke volumes.

“Right.” Kamryn nodded to no one but herself. “She wanted to try and get back in my good graces, see if maybe there was a chance now that I’m doing well.”

“Something like that,” Greer mumbled. “So I’m glad she didn’t call you.”

“Yeah. Will she be at the bachelorette party?”

“She will,” Greer responded, her voice rising and lowering in just those two words. “And Rosie will.”

“Great.” Kamryn frowned. “Andra better appreciate me spending so much time with my ex for her.”

Greer clicked her tongue. “She understands how hard this is for you.”

“Good.” Kamryn caught sight of the clock and nearly gasped. “Shit. I’ve got to get ready.”

“Ready? Ready for what? It’s like eight o’clock.”

“Yeah. I’ve got a hot date.” Kamryn stood up and rushed into her bedroom. She should have figured out what she was going to wear well before now, because now she was in an all-out panic over it. “What should I wear?”

“Where are you going?”

“No clue. Elia picked the place.” Kamryn opened her closet and stared at her options. Everything was school-centered and not date-centered. She’d left so much of her stuff packed away in boxes because she knew she wasn’t going to be here long, and now she seriously regretted that decision. She needed hot-date clothes, not prim-and-proper Head of School clothes.

“Is it a fancy place? Laid back?”

“I should have asked that, right?”

“Probably.” Greer was laughing again, definitely at Kamryn’s own expense this time. “When’s your date?”

“We’re leaving in twenty minutes.”

“Oh, big date time. Does this mean you two are officially a thing?”

“I don’t know,” Kamryn added a whine to her tone. “I was hoping to talk about that tonight. And maybe… do other things.”

“Likemake love?”

“I knew that would come back to bite me in the ass, but yes, I’d like to get laid again.” Kamryn laughed as she pulled out an outfit that she’d saved for special board meetings andinterviews. This should do, shouldn’t it? It was semi-revealing but still fairly conservative. She could get away with this at a super fancy restaurant or a more laid-back one. Probably not the fast-food joint down the road, though. Then again—they never really had too much judgment, did they?

“Kam!”

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