| "So AJ said you two spent the night together again. Is it true?" Liz took a sip of her iced tea at lunch. "You know Liz, why don't you ask Susan? She seems to know." "Have a cow why don't you?!" "Well excuse me Liz . I thought we were going to lunch to get away from all these rumors." She gave Tamara a guilty look. "Look Liz. I wasn't born under a lucky star like the rest of y'all were." "That's not fair." "You know what's not fair Liz? Your so-called friends treating you like the town slut. That's not fair when they don't know any of the facts OK?" "Jeez! You've got a chip on your shoulder." "Liz, I'm old enough to know to ask if something's true before I accuse them of doing it. Susan got dumped. I bet she's never been dumped in her life." "Now hold on Tam. You don't know a thing about Susan's life." "See how that works. I assume she does that and I start telling people like it's the truth and they start believing it." "So what did happen that night?" "Nothing. We fell asleep watching a movie . We got into a pillow fight in the living room and Susan took it the wrong way. Howie and I are just friends and that's the way they'll stay,"trying to convince herself of it as well as Liz but not succeeding very well. "Last night?" "He crashed on my couch,"she returned still seeing doubt in her friend's face. "Somehow that's just a little too inconcievable with Howie's reputation with the ladies lately." "What might that be?" "Seems people believe your the object of his affections these days." "Get out of here." "Seems you're the object of Nick's affections also." "Where did you hear that from?" "Nick." "Nick? Funny." "Maybe you should pursue it to see if Howie's truly interested or not." "Ya think?" "The only way to seem to get a man's attention is to show interest in another one." "Doesn't seem right to use one man against the other." "Do you want Howie?" "Who said I wanted him?" "Your eyes did since the day you met him but men don't pick up on that quite as quickly as us women folk,"Liz teased. "So you think I should do this?" "Yes. What's the worst that could happen?" Tamara looked at Liz. "OK. A lot but you'll never know if you don't try right?" "I'll do it then." |
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