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Everyone was talking at once while they looked at the menu to order their food at Mona’s. She did have to admit she loved how close everyone was that she worked with.
She’d never had this growing up. Not with friends, ever... Not even in college when she kept trying to go back and finish.
She was more interested in experiencing life than learning from books. Guess it showed with the way she floundered so much.
“Are you going to stay at Poppy’s place alone or get a new roommate?” Ivy asked.
“Ivy,” Dahlia said. “Why would you ask that right now? You always think of those things rather than focusing on the happiness around you.”
She pouted a little. She didn’t know why Dahlia, who was four years older than her, always had to scold her like their mother did.
“It’s just Daisy has always lived with Heather. It’s got to be a big change,” Ivy argued.
“And she’s got a boyfriend right now, so maybe it’s not that big of a deal,” Dahlia said.
Daisy watched as she and her sister eyed each other. The last thing Ivy wanted to do was fight here when everyone was happy. She didn’t think her question was that insensitive, but maybe it was.
Maybe she just couldn’t get out of her own way half the time and focused on the wrong things as she was reminded of frequently.
“Yes, I’ve got a boyfriend and I’m trying to spend time with him when I can,” Daisy said. “I haven’t thought much of the future. Heather and I will talk about it. As you can tell, they don’t move fast.”
They’d all just found out Heather had something going on with Luke much longer than she’d let on.
“I’m sure Heather is going to move in with Luke,” Ivy said. “I would.”
If she were Heather, she would have moved in with Luke months ago.
“Because you’re selfish like that,” Dahlia said simply.
“That’s mean,” Ivy said. Her eyes started to itch and burn with the telltale signs of tears coming on.
She’d heard it more than once she was selfish and only thought of herself.
That she needed someone to care for her.
She couldn’t be alone.
She always had to have a guy in her life or someone to make her feel important.
That she had Daddy issues because of the attention she wanted from her father that she never got.
None of those things would be wrong.
She just hated that she couldn’t seem to stop feeling that way.
It felt as if there was something wrong with her when no one else worried about the things she did.
“Girls,” Jasmine, her older sister by two years, said. “Enough. This is a happy dinner. Ivy, what is going on with you?”
It was the soft tone that Jasmine used a lot. Not a lecturing one even though Jasmine had been known to do that too.
But she’d been the closest to Jasmine, who seemed to understand her the best.
After all, it was Jasmine who helped her move to Mystic and start over. To learn to live on her own and have this great job surrounded by everyone in this room.
She’d never let her sister down and would always be thankful for the opportunity.
“Nothing,” Ivy said, smiling. “Just everyone is hooking up and I’m stuck with Dahlia.”
