“Oh, for fuck’s sake, Jade, stop it.” She thought to herself.
Right at that moment Gloria turned and saw her. “Jade, hi, thanks for stopping by. I wasn’t sure you would.”
“Yeah, Ellie called and sort of explained what happened and said you’d like to talk to me as well. So here I am.”
“Here you are.” Suddenly Gloria was feeling very unsure of herself. She had planned out what she was going to say to Jade in her head a dozen times but now that she was here everything seemed so stupid. So overdone. She had behaved badly, and she was just embarrassed.
“Okay, well this is getting uncomfortably awkward.”
Gloria laughed a little, “It is, and that’s my fault. Again. I just don’t know what to say except I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I thought the worst of you and of Ellie. And I’m sorry you got dragged into a really weird and not at all typical moment with us.”
“I’m not going to lie, it was weird.”
“It’s hard to explain. I think it’s because Ellie and I have been friends forever basically and I think we started to rely a little too much on assuming the other one would know what we were thinking. And then we filled in a lot of our own doubts when we should have just talked to each other.”
“That’s pretty close to what she said. And I just ended up swept up in it.”
“You did. And I’m really sorry. And if you still want to, I’d really like a second chance at getting to know you. We could still go see that exhibit together?”
“Well, I went and saw it on my own, but I could go again.”
“Honestly? I went as saw it on my own as well so…”
Jade laughed. “How about coffee? We could go get a coffee?”
“That sounds like a great idea.”
From the back of the shop Adele called out, “You can go right now. Take the afternoon off. I’ll see you tomorrow. Not that I was eavesdropping on your personal conversations just a coincidence that I heard that last part.”
“You heard the woman. I have the afternoon off if you are free?”
Jade smiled, “I am.”
Coffee turned into dinner, which turned into a long walk, which turned into talking all night, which turned into breakfast the next day, which turned into Gloria almost being late for work. As far as second chances went it was a good one.
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