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When I hit that six-figure income two years later, I talked my mother into retiring and helped her find a nice apartment in a safe building near friends. I even bought her a new car, not as fancy as mine, but something safe and reliable. She had cried when I had delivered it and told me that all her sacrifice had been worth it to see me succeed. Now, if only I could find myself a man and give her grandbabies. No amount of money would achieve that goal.
The door opened, and the music got louder for a moment and then faded. I stayed quiet until there was a knock on my door. “I know you are in there,” Marsha said.
“I had to use the restroom.” I flushed the toilet and made my way out to wash my hands.
“Zack is gorgeous.”
I shrugged. “I guess.”
She barked out a laugh. “You guess? Have you gone blind working in that lab for so long? That man is cotton candy on a stick!”
“So, go enjoy yourself.”
She leaned closer to me. “Oh, it’s not me he wants to share his treat with.”
I glanced up, and she was grinning at me. “What are you talking about?”
“That man was all about you, Rainbow.”
My eyes snapped back up. “Don’t you dare call me that.”
“Whoa, testy. Why was he calling you that anyway?”
“No reason.” I tried to step around her, but she jumped to block me. Water ran down my arms and dripped from my elbows as I stood there like a doctor preparing for surgery.
“Obviously, it was a nickname in high school.”
“Yeah, so?”
“So, was it a good nickname or a bad one?”
I laughed and stepped around her. “Trust me, it was not good.”
“I can’t believe it was bad coming from a hottie like him. They said it was because you were always happy. Were you?”
I sighed and shook my head. “It wasn’t a compliment.” I dried my hands and turned to look at her. “Can we please not talk about Zack anymore?”
“Okay, but that might be a little hard.”
“Why?”
“Because we are supposed to eat dinner with them tonight.”
“What? Marsha, do not make me sit at that table with them.”
“Look, you promised you would socialize and have fun. Who cares what those guys thought of you in high school? Show them who you arenow. You’re a beautiful inside-and-out, kick-ass geneticist. You probably make more than all four of them combined.”
I laughed. “I doubt that.”
“Besides, I already told them that if they pissed you off or called you Rainbow again that I was going to play dirty.”
I raised a brow. “That sounds more like a sex game than a punishment.”
She laughed and turned, saying over her shoulder, “Maybe it is.”
