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When Noelle asked the question again, with her eyes this time, I peeped it. Brandy was right; little Noelle was checking for me. This was messed up. I glanced over to Witherspoon, who rolled her eyes. She knew it, too, but it seemed she wasn’t going to help me out here.
I cleared my throat. “Older than your sister.”
“Oh.” Her eyes ping-ponged before she asked, “So, how old?”
“Say less, Noelle! Let’s go eat,” Witherspoon demanded, making me shoot from my seat.
“Thanks, Ines,” I muttered with a full belly when she placed a slice of some kind of fancy cheesecake in front of me. “What’s this red cake?”
“Red velvet,” Witherspoon answered.
“Oh.” I stared at it. “I guess you really do make fancy food.”
“I didn’t make that,” she shared with her back to me, headed to the opening of the dining room. “Shi-Shi did.”
My eyes went to Witherspoon. She pulled her tea mug to her mouth, snapping her neck, being cocky.
“So you can cook.”
“I told you I could. Guess you don’t believe my truths because I’m an open book,” she murmured, being sassy before taking another sip.
“Here’s the website,” Noelle told Brandy. “I’llAirdropit to you.”
“Y’all want dessert?” Ines asked the girls.
Noelle wrinkled her nose while shaking her head. “Nah. Gluten-free for me.”
“Yeah,” Brandy agreed. “Me, too.”
Witherspoon snapped her neck again. “After y’all just inhaled pasta primavera?”
The girls’ heads whipped to face each other, questioning that fact.
“I thought you said it was gluten-free pasta,” Brandy challenged Noelle.
Noelle tossed Ines a stare over her shoulder. “You know I’m allergic to gluten.”
“Since when?” Witherspoon asked.
“Girl,” Ines hissed. “Bye, Noelle.” She walked out of the room.
“Ugh!” Brandy went back to her phone. “Now, I really need a gluten-free dessert. What does this bakery downstairs have?”
In the lobby of Witherspoon’s luxury apartment building were restaurants, a gym, and a few shoppes. It was fitting for a woman like her.
“So,” Noelle’s eyes swept over me a few seconds before she spoke. “You only came over for dinner?”
I nodded. “Ines cast a spell on me a few months ago and I keep coming back.”
“It’s just this is only my second time seeing you over here, is all. I’m here a few days a week.”
I didn’t know what to say. Witherspoon’s sister was a straight shooter. I had to keep up.
Holding a piece of cake to my mouth, I smiled. “Then I’m sure I’ll be running into you again.”
“They have brownies and no-bake oatmeal cookies.” Brandy shot up from the table.
Noelle followed her. “Maybe we’ll see Young Lord or his wife again.”
