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But she wasn’t about to explain all that, so Sorrow just shrugged "It wasn’t exactly true love with us, you know?" Feeling vulnerable, she flopped onto her back, staring at the ceiling instead ofstare "Please I just need so" She put a hand out to stop Laura’s denials,her eye "Listen You don’t understand It couys confide in I’ve always been Sorrow Bailey, The Buddy"

"You’re being serious, aren’t you?" Laura’s expression softened as she seemed to see Sorrow for the first tiot to let hin"

"What kind of sign?"

"Guys don’t need much Billy looks at you all the time Next time you’re alone, just…don’t look away Trust me The man will take it from there"

"Okay I can do that Wait" Sorrow’s heart skittered in her chest at the thought "Where should I be when this happens? Tell in, exactly"

"How, exactly?" Laura scanned her critically "Change that shirt, for starters And wear sos in front of her, rolling her ankles "These aren’t hiking boots They’re all-weather sneakers"

"Yeah, whatever Lose theed at her hem "This fits"

"Okay, check that I rabbed her sister’s ar my closet"

"Really?" Sorrow stumbled down the hallway behind her "You’ll helpopen her closet door "If you mean, will I dress you up then shove you out the door, then yes, gladly I’ll help you"

Sorrow briefly registered the surprising aht for as supposedly a "short visit" But then her sister’s words sank in "Wait, you’re going to shove o?"

"To his house, du rando in her belly, excited to be getting actual help, but a little nervous, too "What should I talk about when I get there?"

Laura stopped what she was doing to give her a long, hard look "You really don’t know, do you?"

She gave her sister a rueful shrug "I can talk, I’ve just never gotten how to, you know, flirt"

Laura turned and, putting hands on hips, studied her "You kno to flirt You just don’t know that you know You know?"

"Uly about Like food Only spice it up"

"Spice up the food?" Sorrow asked

"No, dumhty brow, h "And make some sexy food while you’re at it"

"Sexy food? You ras are aphrodisiacs?"

Laura gri drizzly and chocolaty and whipped creamy"

"Got it," Sorrow said Food was her doave her confidence "And then what?"

Laura rolled her eyes "Seriously? If you haven’t figured that part out yet, you’re in ht"

"You knohat I mean" She joined Laura at the closet and picked out a purple dress, holding it in front of her before ait on the floor "Makes you look like an eggplant"

Sorrow plopped on the edge of the bed "So, illup?"

"I don’t know Make it up You bought too h-heeled boot and tossed through her closet to find its h his stoo chef"

She nodded She could do that "I can do that"

"You can do that" Laura’s eyes lit, and she plucked a gauzy black top from her closet "A-ha"

Sorroned "You want h"