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“Oh my god- are you okay?”
She shook her head.
I backed away from the flowers and walked around the counter. “What’s wrong?”
She tried to speak, but her lips just shook as she wrapped her arms around me and cried against my neck.
I placed a hand on her head and held her tight. “Fiona, talk to me. What’s going on?”
“I didn’t know what else to do. I just reacted.”
I couldn’t even understand her as she hiccupped between breaths. “Shhh. Calm down. Take a deep breath.” I turned her towards the sofa. “Sit.”
She slumped on the couch and put her head in her hands. “I fucked up, Lucy. I fucked up big, and now I’m totally fucked.”
I rubbed her back. “What happened?”
“I got fired,” she said, bursting into tears again.
“What?! How?”
“Chuck. He fired me.”
“Why would he do that?” I asked.
“Cause I kneed him in the balls.”
“Why would you do that?”
“Cause he grabbed me. He grabbed me and he tried to grope my breasts.”
“Fuck.” My eyes started to burn.
“So I reacted,” she said, leaning forward. “I’m so sorry I-“
“You have nothing to be sorry about. Look at me.”
She stared at me through puffy eyes.
“Nothing. Okay? You did the right thing.”
“But now I’m unemployed. How am I going to pay my share of the rent?”
“Don’t worry about that,” I said. “I have plenty of savings.”
“The savings are for your salon.”
“And emergencies. Like this.”
She leaned against my shoulder.
“Why were you even alone with him? I thought we agreed not to be stupid.”
“I was only going to be alone with him for two seconds, and Katie had a date so I let her go.”
I shook my head. “Jesus.”
“I know.”
