Page 190 of Safe With You
I reached for my water again. “Why I gotta be going with somebody?”
“Because you don’t change shirts to go eat by yourself.”
I looked down at what I was wearing.
“How do you know I changed shirts?”
“I don’t.” She laughed. “But thank you for confirming it.”
I closed my eyes.
The woman had never minded her business a day in her life.
“Tasha.”
“Ellis.”
“Luna.”
She went quiet long enough that I pulled the phone away from my ear to make sure the call didn’t drop.
“I didn’t say anything.”
“You got quiet.”
“I’m just surprised.”
“About what?”
“You’re going to breakfast with Luna.”
“Yes.”
“Just y’all?”
I took another drink of water. “That’s generally how dates work.”
She went quiet again, and this time I didn’t bother checking the phone.
“Why are you being weird?”
“I’m not being weird.”
“You are.”
“I’m trying to figure out when y’all started going on dates.”
“We haven’t.”
“You just said you were taking her to breakfast.”
“I am.”
“So this is a date.”
“The first one.”
“Oh.”
