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So of course, she wasn’t going to let Kara’s birthday just go by.
“It smells amazing in here,” Kara remarked, stepping back and looking into the pot Sabine had boiling on the stovetop.
“Your favorite, sausage potato soup,” Sabine replied. She went back to chopping her potatoes which was what she’d been doing before she got sidetracked by the music.
“You are my favorite person in the entire world.” Kara kissed Sabine on the cheek and danced away.
“You only say that because I keep feeding you.” Sabine smirked into the pot. “How was your day, dear?”
“Well, for starters, the five-year-old that reminds me daily of my place in the world told me he loved me. And then he asked if both of my hips were original or if I’d had them replaced yet. You know, like his grandmother.”
Sabine chuckled, adding the bay leaf.
While Sabine tutored famous people’s kids, Kara was their nanny.
That stepstool of NDAs Sabine had? Kara had one to match.
It was a good thing they could talk to each other, otherwise their social life would be way more difficult.
Kara sat down at the table and propped her chin on her fist. Her wide green eyes stared off into the distance and Sabine knew what was going to come out of her beautiful best friend’s mouth.
“Maybe I should call John.”
Sabine rolled her lips inward and focused on stirring the ingredients.
Kara exhaled a loud sigh and flopped her head onto the table.
“Or,” Sabine suggested gently, “You couldnotcall John.” She waggled her eyebrows when Kara rolled her head to the side to look at her. She was rewarded with a smile.
“You make a great case.”
Sabine shrugged because it was true. John wasn’t that great. But he had proposed to Kara six months ago with an enormous diamond and so the struggle was real.
He just wasn’t anything that Kara wanted in a life partner. It would have never worked.
“I just don’t want to die alone.”
“You are twenty-five, not ninety-five. And you won’t be alone. Because you’ll always have me.” Sabine batted her eyelashes.
Kara laughed, sat up and pushed her hair back. “And what happens if I do meet the man of my dreams?”
“We’ve talked about this.” Sabine closed her hands around the bowl of her wine glass. “You’re going to make him build me a room above your garage so I have a place to grow old.”
Kara’s deep laugh made Sabine smile.
“This birthday is already ten times better than last year,” Kara said. “Thank you.”
That’s because last year Kara’s longtime boyfriend, Adler, had dumped her. On her birthday. To which Kara had responded by canceling all future birthdays.
It was also how she’d ended up with John for all of three months before the rebound proposed.
It hadn’t been difficult to top last year.
The playlist switched to a lower volume song and the banjos could be heard through the door.
“Maybe I spoke too soon.” Kara glared in the general direction of the noise.
And then the banjos were joined by the sound of vigorous foot stomping.
