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Jennifer gestured to the jungle behind them. “You know what? Not the time.”
“Yes. It is the time. If we get offed by a bunch of Corporation ass**les, I don’t want to go out without telling you this.”
“Telling me what?”
Sosie rubbed her right fist over her heart.
“Sorry for what?” Jennifer signed.
“Sorry I can’t be what you want me to be. Sorry I’m not your dream girl.”
Jennifer wanted to let it go, but she couldn’t. “You kissed me! What the hell was that?”
“I don’t know! I just … wanted to.”
“So, it was nothing for you? Like, ‘Hey, kids, I wanted to try strawberry licorice, so I did. Hooray! How cool am I?’”
“I don’t know what you’re saying,” Sosie said.
“Did that mean nothing to you?” Jennifer enunciated clearly.
“It wasn’t like that. I liked it. I like you.”
“I’m all confused again.” Jennifer paced away and came back. “Are you g*y or not?”
“I don’t know what I am yet,” Sosie answered. “I’m still figuring it out. But if I were a big, card-carrying, softball-playing, Joan Jett-worshipping lezbot, I would totally jump you.”
“Nice stereotyping.” Jennifer rolled her eyes, but a blush worked its way up her neck. “For the record, I hate softball. But, um, thanks for that other bit.”
Sosie hugged Jennifer. “You’re, like, the coolest girl I know. And I’d hate it if you hated me.”
“I don’t hate you. As much. I mean, I definitely hated you for a little while there.”
Sosie folded down her middle and ring fingers and waved the sign at Jennifer.
“Whatever,” Jennifer said.
“Do it back.”
“We need to go.”
Sosie didn’t give up. She turned it into a robot dance, arms and legs popping and locking, her expression wide-eyed and smiling.
“Don’t do the happy robot dance. You know I’m defenseless against that.”
Sosie quickened her jerky movements until she resembled a robot on speed. Through it all, she kept her hands locked in the same sign until Jennifer finally laughed.
“Okay, okay,” she said, returning the gesture. “I love you, too.”
Sosie stuck out her hand. “Friends?”
Jennifer sighed. She gave Sosie a small, fake punch to the upper arm. “Eventually.”
Sosie nodded. “Fair enough. Someday, you’ll marry this amazing woman and I’ll be your maid of honor.”
Jennifer made a face. “Maybe Adina will be my maid of honor.”
Sosie raised an eyebrow.
