Chapter 58

• We exchange pleasantries and surprisingly, Victoria is nice and the air around us is not awkward. She seems very comfortable and happy in her space and I genuinely love that for her. She looks so… free and content, at peace in her tiny bubble of reciprocated love. She calls out to her partner, Joselyn, and the lady turns to me and waves with a heartily kind smile. I wave back, and I’m not sure what’s happening.
• Victoria walks with me and we step outside. I’m ready to walk back home, but she looks like she has something else to say.
• “Hey, uh, Charlee, I don’t mean to be intrusive, but can we talk about something a little personal?” she says, flattening her lips into a line.