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“True.”

“I can still decide if I want it.”

“Yes.” She answers that immediately.

Then she reaches for her phone. “Blair has court downtown this morning. I can ask if she has twenty minutes afterward to go over the lease with you if you decide you want it.”

“You don’t need to arrange everything.”

Her hand stops halfway to the phone. Then she smiles. “No. I guess I don’t.” She sets it back down. “You have her number.”

“I do.”

“Then you can ask her.”

I like that answer better. Laura disappears into the bathroom, and I find Blair’s contact by her picture. I call while Laura’s shower runs.

Blair answers on the fourth ring. “Kell?”

“Yes.”

“You’re calling me without Laura. Should I be concerned?”

“No.”

“Excellent. What do you need?”

“I’m going to see a workshop. If I want it, there’s a lease.”

“So you need someone to read it.”

“Yes.”

“I have court at ten. If the judge doesn’t decide to punish everyone for existing, I can meet you around eleven thirty.”

“What if the judge does?”

“Then you’ll learn something useful about lawyers.”

I’m not sure what, but I tell her okay.

“Text me the address.”

“I can’t.”

There’s a brief silence.

“Right. Sorry. Just tell me where it is.”

I open the saved destination Laura put into the rideshare app yesterday and have the phone read the address aloud. I repeat it to Blair.

“I know the building,” she says. “I’ll find you.”

Laura comes out of the bathroom dressed for work while I’m ending the call.

“Blair’s meeting me there,” I say.

“Good.” She fastens an earring, then reaches for the other one. “This would be your space. I’m glad you’re going alone, because it’s your decision.”