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“Did what?”
Mandy got out two muffin trays and spooned the mix in.
“The whole brooding angry thing.”
She finished filling the trays and put them in the oven.
Rory took a couple of steps and leaped onto the bench. She then grabbed the bowl Mandy had been lowering into the sink and started running her finger around it.
“I can get angry.”
Rory snorted, which annoyed Mandy.
“I can!”
“Wow!” Rory stopped licking her fingers. “That was really good.”
“Are you trying to deliberately annoy me, Rory?”
“Not really, but it’s cool to see you angry. This emotion is new from you.”
Was it?Rory made her sound as exciting as a five-day-old muffin.
“I don’t like emotion, it’s messy.”
“And real. You have to show emotion, Mandy, or no one knows what’s going on with you. Just this morning I told Jack that if he didn’t stop throwing his wet towel on my side of the bed I was cutting up his favorite basketball shirt, the one he got signed by that dude in the team whose name escapes me.”
“You didn’t?” Bet he loved that.
“Sure, and while it takes a lot to threaten Jack, he said he’d try. Then we had really good sex so—”
“I don’t really need to hear that, Rory.”
“Sure you do, so you know what you’re missing out on.”
Mandy went to the fridge to get the frosting she’d made for the muffins.
“Why is that in there?”
“What?”
“I was looking for this knife at home last night, and it’s in the fridge here.” Mandy pulled out the carving knife. It was from a set she’d brought herself.
“Why would you even put a knife in the fridge, is more to the point?”
“I have no idea but lately my head’s been all over the place.”
“Random. I do shit like that. Jack found a half-eaten sandwich in his top drawer the other day. I must have put it there while I was cleaning up.”
“You were cleaning up?” Mandy took the knife and wrapped it in a towel, ready to take home.
Weird.
“Moving crap from one place to another, Jack calls it. But getting back to emotion—”
“I don’t like people knowing stuff about me,” Mandy said.
“You’re kidding me, right? You have two aunts that could run the town gossip column. You also live in a town that thrives on knowing each other’s business.”
