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Guess looks were deceiving.
“Are you ready so we can go get Ivy?”
“I am,” Daisy said, grabbing her boots too. Her roommate had on leggings and knee high boots over them. Ones with heels, but with the long sweater covering every part of her body but her hands and face, it’s not like she looked slutty but pretty damn hot.
She let out a whistle. “Those boots just took your leggings and sweater up another notch. Damn.”
Daisy did a little spin. “I thought it was a nice touch. I don’t get to wear these often. I know the sidewalks and parking lots are cleared enough to wear them. It’s not like they are that high of a heel. Just a few inches. Do you think it’s too much?”
“Nope. You’re all monotone in browns and sparkle with the flash of your jewelry. With your leggings and boots the same color, it’s hard to tell where one starts and the other stops. I almost wish we wore the same size shoes.”
“You’ve got a few inches on me and your feet are bigger. Plus you’re a skinny bitch, so nope, not sharing and having you look better in my stuff.”
Heather laughed and grabbed her jacket to put on. “I’d hardly say I was skinny. I just don’t have the curves like you do. And you don’t have many curves either.”
“More than I want,” Daisy said. “But I learned to embrace them. Let’s go get Ivy and watch her make us both look bad. Are you sure you’re okay driving tonight? We could have gotten an Uber.”
“Nah,” she said. “I’m good. You two have fun. Next time you can drive. I’d rather stuff myself full of food and then a big fat dessert.”
“I’m having that too,” Daisy said. “But a glass of wine is going to go down well with it all.”
They got in her car and drove to Jasmine’s old apartment that Ivy now lived in alone. They didn’t even have to get out, as Ivy was waiting for them and ran out the front door.
“Girls' night!” Ivy shouted as she hopped in. “Thank you both for indulging me. I wish I could get out more, but it’s not like there is much to do here and the winter sucks.”
Ivy had moved here from Texas back in the fall. This was her first experience with snow, as she and her siblings had grown up traveling the world with their father who was a doctor with Doctors Without Borders. Most of the countries they’d lived in were much warmer than the Northeast.
“I’m used to it,” Heather said.
“Me too,” Daisy said. “You wanted to come here though.”
“I just wanted to be by Jasmine. I’m trying to talk Dahlia into moving closer, but she is on the fence. I think I’m wearing her down.”
Dahlia was Jasmine and Ivy’s older sister who lived in Chicago. “Really? Jasmine has never said a word.”
“I haven’t said anything to her. But Dahlia and I talk. She has been talking more about the baby coming and wanting to see her niece grow up. I think she is jealous I’m here. I don’t think anyone has ever been jealous of me before.”
“Then why doesn’t she look for a job closer?” Daisy asked. “I picked up and moved. You did too. We all did.”
“I said the same thing, but Dahlia is the responsible one. She has to research it all. She has a good job and it’d have to make sense for her and all those adult-type things.”
They laughed in the car. Ivy was funny and sweet but still younger than them in age and definitely in maturity though she had matured a little in the past several months.
As a coworker, she was great, but outside of work she knew that Ivy still needed her hand held by her older sister some and liked the security of Jasmine being so close by even if she was living on her own.
Heather could say she understood that too.
As quiet as she was, she did love having her brothers protecting her. Knowing they’d be there for her.
But when she moved back after college and started to work, her brothers were overprotective of her around going out. More than they were when she was dating in high school.
That she could understand. Maybe she was a bit naive at times. But after college she wasn’t and she couldn’t get them to see reason.
Besides feeling like her parents were always silently bringing her down, her brothers were killing her social life.
To grow on so many levels it was just time to leave.
Not telling her parents she was thinking of doing it probably wasn’t smart, so when they found out she’d come here and interviewed when she’d said she was just taking a few days away with friends wasn’t wise.
