Page 119 of Safe With You
“I think a hamster might be more reasonable.”
I stared at her until she laughed.
“I’m kidding.”
“You’re never talking to her without supervision.”
The server came back before she could argue, and we placed our orders.
Shrimp and grits for Luna.
Exactly what she’d been pretending she wasn’t already going to get.
She shook her head and took another drink of tea.
For a few seconds, neither of us said anything.
The silence wasn’t uncomfortable. With Luna, it never seemed to need filling.
She looked toward the front windows. “So did you always know you were staying here?”
“In Easton Grove?”
“Yeah.”
I leaned back against the booth. “No.”
“Where were you going?”
“Everywhere.”
She laughed. “Very specific.”
“I was sixteen.”
“So?”
“So sixteen-year-old me had plans.”
“What kind?”
“Atlanta for a while. Then Chicago.”
“Those are two very different winters.”
“I hadn’t thought that far.”
“Clearly.”
“I think at one point I was moving to New York too.”
Her eyebrows lifted. “You?”
“What does that mean?”
“You don’t give New York.”
I stared at her.
