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My heartbeat picks up just remembering that day. I toss a pillow at Mae but miss.
“It can’t be that bad,” Beth says, a bottle of lotion in each hand, one lavender and one regular. “I feel like it’s my birthday. How sad is that?” She chuckles.
“It’s not nearly as bad as she’s making it out to be.” Mae sips her wine and grabs another cookie. “They get off the elevator.”
“You’re missing a crucial part of the story,” I remind her, grabbing another pillow from beside me and pulling it onto my face.
Mae tilts her head and looks at me. “What?”
I move the pillow away from my face for a second. “I saw him when I interviewed.” I put it back over, as if covering my face makes the embarrassment somehow less.
“Lorenzo Mancini isn’t a guy you forget, so yes, she saw him at the interview. Knew on the ride up that they’d get off on the same floor. She hangs back because she doesn’t want him to stare at her ass while she walks in front of him out of the elevator.”
“My modest little sister.” Beth nudges my arm.
I scream into the pillow.
“So she follows him.”
I take the pillow off my face again. “Keep that amused tone out of your voice.”
Mae laughs. “Long story short, she followed him right into the men’s room.”
“Oh, that’s nothing,” Beth says. “Please.”
I sit up straight. “I followed him into the bathroom. He didn’t notice right away. Put his tie over his shoulder and unbuckled his pants until he must have sensed me. I was standing there, staring at him.”
“For how long?” I can tell my sister is trying to hold back a laugh now.
“I don’t know.” I fall headfirst into the couch.
“He doesn’t even remember,” Mae says.
“Because I’m that unmemorable. I’m pretty sure I’d remember someone who followed me into a bathroom and acted like they were going to watch me pee.”
“That was two years ago. Things have changed. I saw it.” Beth tucks her legs under her on the couch, finally ignoring the box of goodies.
“You never saw us until the hospital.”
She shrugs. “You guys have chemistry.”
“No, we don’t. We’re opposite sexes who work together. The lines are blurring, but they’ll straighten out.”
Beth looks at Mae, then to the side when we hear footsteps in the hall.
“Sorry, babe, she’s hungry.” Sam comes out of the back hallway looking like death. He’s in shorts and a T-shirt with three stains around his shoulders. “Ladies.”
“Sam, man, you need a shower. What’s that smell?” Mae cringes with me.
“It’s called fatherhood, Mae.”
Her cringe intensifies from his snarky attitude.
“Go get some rest. I got her.” Beth opens her arms, and Sam places Cecilia into them. Beth pulls up her shirt and opens some flap on her bra, her huge breast falling out.
“Whoa, did you get implants?” Mae asks.
I really hope she’s joking.
