Page 109 of Keep My Heart
‘You okay?’ he asks.
I nod. ‘I have to get used to it. It’s going to happen a lot tonight.’
‘And you’re okay with people knowing about us?’
‘Of course. I love being here with you.’ I reach up and talk in his ear. ‘And I can’t wait until later when I get you all to myself.’
‘Hey. Don’t be doing that here.’ He glances down at his pants. ‘This is a tight suit.’
I laugh as he buttons his jacket, hiding the effect I had on him by saying that.
‘You want a drink?’ he asks.
‘I’d love one.’
As we’re walking to the bar, two women race up to me, both very pregnant.
‘Lyndsay?’ one of them says.
Seeing her face, I instantly recognize her.
‘Molly!’ I hug her, a distant hug because her belly’s so big. ‘When are you due?’
‘What do you mean?’ she asks, sounding hurt as she pulls away.
Is she saying she’s not pregnant? She’s thin everywhere but her huge belly. She has to be pregnant.
She bursts out laughing. ‘I’m kidding! I’m due in August.’
‘And I’m due early September,’ the other woman says.
‘Jane!’ I hug her. ‘Oh gosh, I need to pay more attention. Everyone looks so different. It hasn’t been that long, has it?’
‘Fifteen years have not been kind to some of us,’ Jane says, laughing. ‘Except you.’ She looks me up and down. ‘You look even better than you did in high school. Do you have kids?’
‘No.’
‘Well, that explains it,’ she says, motioning to Molly. ‘We each have two, plus the one on the way. It’s impossible to get your body back after having kids.’
Molly looks up at Nick, tilting her head. ‘You look familiar. Do I know you?’
‘Yeah. Nick. Kanfield.’
She gasps. ‘Oh my God, you’re right!’
‘I hope so,’ he says, smiling.
‘You got hot,’ Jane says, staring at him. She was never one to censor her words, which is one of the reasons l liked her. Jane and Molly were on the cheerleading team with me. We had a really great team. We didn’t fight or form cliques or start rumors about each other. As head cheerleader, I didn’t put up with that stuff. I wanted us all to be friends, knowing it would make us a better team.
‘Reallyhot,’ Molly says, practically drooling over Nick.
‘He’s an attorney now,’ I tell them. ‘A very successful one. He just made partner at his firm.’
‘I always knew you’d do well,’ Jane says to Nick. ‘You took all the hardest classes and got straight A’s.’
‘Where are you living now?’ Molly asks him.
‘New York.’
