"A deep feeling of affection and sexual attachment."
That's all Mina has - words stolen from a dictionary. How will she earn an apprenticeship at Luckman Inc. if she can't write an essay on what true love is? It has been a week, and she has yet to c...
"And?" She looked at him again for more than that piece of obvious information.
"Oh and women."
That was another subject on its own. Mina had inquiries about her brother's love life but not enough to get involved if the person wasn't serious. Geo hasn't been on the market since junior year after his first heartbreak, is what she knew anyway. "And?"
"Other girls, not you though, he'd punch me if I brought you up in conversation but don't worry, you still have my heart," He winked. "...among other things."
Mina closed her eyes and leaned back. "Be honest and tell me he's not doing any stupidly dangerous things in college right now."
They had arrived at the bakery and had parked around the back entrance. He turned off the engine and rolled up the windows.
"I can't, college is the time to make stupid mistakes. Don't pretend like you never did." As many college students do, but not as many as Alden had.
"Whatever. You're no help so I'm going home." Mina unbuckled her seatbelt, opened the door and grabbed her side-bag.
"Wait, kitty, don't be mad I did find out something."
"What is it?" Mina smoothly got out and held the door with both hands.
"He kept mumbling that he had a debt, like a lot of it but I couldn't get him to elaborate on that," Alden's face contorted into some confused state of scrunched up eyebrows, nose, and lips.
"Well yeah he's in college he's going to have some debt after." She slammed shut the passenger side door and opened the back door entrance of the bakery.
"Okay but the way he cringed at it was weird, I don't know, maybe it's just me or the drinks last night," he shrugged his shoulders and unloaded the empty containers from the catering van.
"Or both."
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She went home around seven, delayed by a trip to the grocery store. Heidi had called her while she was marching out and they had been talking about her semi-vacation. It was a work vacation but that didn't make it any less exciting.
"You haven't slept together yet?"
"No"
"Really, not even when—"
"No"
"Wow," She could picture her friend's thick blonde eyebrows reaching her forehead for a second and then pout in confusion, "but it's been like two months"
"More or less yeah, that doesn't matter though. It'll happen when it happens." She finished her sentence with a sigh as she finished preparing her bath.
"Anyway, moving on to the present."
Mina was so proud of her best friend, “Remember to pay close attention to the designer and don't worry about those stuck up models, they have all their noses so high up they can't look down on you,” she said in what she hoped would calm her friend’s anxiousness.
