Can you imagine what’s next?

Tuesday: painting day.

We were working in the studio today. I was opening the jar of calligraphy ink when Salome beside me suddenly said, “Black.”

“Yes, Sal. I know what color this is, thank you.”

“No, it’s Black,” she pointed to the door.

Okay. So there was Black at the inner courtyard waving his arms around like a crazed idiot—or maybe a too-fat chicken trying to fly—probably to catch my attention (and everybody else’s). I would’ve liked to just sit there and watch him make a fool out of himself, but I’m a merciful person so I stepped out of the room to stop him.

B looked as giddy as a child in a zoo for the first time. So I was supposing that this wouldn’t be about my behavior yesterday.

“You left me behind yesterday! I said I had something to tell you.”

“I had a class right after English. You know that.”

“I do? …oh yeah!! Hahahah! I forgot about it!”

…

I had an eyebrow raised and a foot ready to turn me back to class. “Okay. Whatever, B.” I guess Cranky Laura was still with me.

“Hey, wait. I haven’t said what I came here for.”

“Shoot.”

Know what he said? He said thanks and sorry for me worrying about him. “I should’ve told you earlier,” I quote. “After all, you are my best friend.”

That actually gave me my first smile for this week. Of course he just had to continue talking.

“It’s good, though, that you kinda forced me into talking. I was having quite a struggle on how I was gonna tell you about KC…”

Ah, so her name’s KC…

“And now that that’s out in the open, I want you to meet her!”

If I had been drinking at the time, B’s face would’ve been dripping wet by then.

I tried giving my thesis work as an excuse, but B insisted that I could have the whole day for thesis and could still have dinner out with them.

I finally said I might have a family thing on Friday night so I wasn’t sure (of course that wasn’t true…). He let me go with that for the moment, but I’m sure he’ll be bugging me for the rest of the week until I have a real excuse.

Unknown to Black, all I really wanted to say was, “meet the one who stole your time away from me? I don’t think I’m ready for that.”