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I filled Kayla in on what my mom had just informed me, and she started to laugh hysterically. She sat in front of me, her hand over her stomach, laughing her tiny ass off.
“You think it’s funny?”
“Little bit,” she said through her laughter.
“Can you be serious for one second?” I demanded, and she tried to stop laughing, which only made her laugh harder. I folded my hands on top of my desk and waited while I glared at her.
“Stop looking at me like that, or I’ll never be able to stop.” She pointed at my face, and I started laughing too.
Kayla was the only person in the office who could get me to unwind and relax. I appreciated that fact more than I let on.
Once we both calmed down, I exhaled a long breath. “Can you believe she’s doing that?”
“Actually, I can.”
I knew my face did little to hide my shock. Of all people, I assumed Kayla would be on my side, see things my way, like she usually tended to, and realize just how insane this request was.
“You can?”
“You have no life outside this office, Joseph. She’s your mother. She worries about you,” she explained like everyone in the world knew this fact.
“There’s something else,” I said.
“What else could there possibly be?” Kayla shrugged at me, still smiling.
“I told her I was already dating someone.”
I waited for Kayla to laugh at me again, but she only looked shocked instead, her mouth dropping open.
“Why would you do that?” She sounded exasperated and concerned because she knew that my problem was about to become her problem as well.
“I panicked!” I said, reaching for a pen and tossing it in the air before catching it.
“Wait.” She pushed back from the chair and walked to my window, staring outside for three beats before turning to face me again. “Are you dating someone? You can’t be, right? There’s no way that I wouldn’t know about it.”
“No, I’m not,” I clarified, and she sat back down in her chair.
“Okay, so who did you tell her you were dating?”
“I didn’t specify. I just said it was someone she didn’t know.”
Kayla flung her hands together in prayer pose and leaned into them. “We can work with this. Just give me a second to think.”
“How? It’s not like I can tell my mom that you and I are dating.”
“Ew, why would you tell her that we were dating?” She threw her hands down and looked up at me, her expression almost disgusted. Any normal male would have been offended, but I was clearly not normal.
“I didn’t tell her we were dating,” I said again.
“Sorry. I didn’t mean ew, like you’re gross to look at or anything.” She waved a hand toward my face. “It’s just that…” She was flustered, and it was funny, actually watching her squirm for once. Kayla was always fairly composed and let things roll off her back. “I think of you like a brother, and she has to know I’m gay. Right?”
I ignored the last question because I honestly wasn’t sure what my mother knew about Kayla’s personal life. “I feel the same way, Kayla. Calm down.”
She narrowed her eyes before doing as I asked and inhaling a long breath.
“How am I even supposed to meet someone? I’m always working. Most women don’t like coming in second to a career. And the ones who don’t mind it, I’m not interested in.”
