by Susan Hayes
She let herself wallow in self-pity for three more cookies, then she set her feelings aside. Eating her feelings and moping wouldn’t change a damned thing, all that would happen is she’d wind up feeling guilty about what she was doing, and the cycle would begin again.
She dried her hand and carefully checked her fingers. Thankfully, there wasn’t any real damage. Just a pair of small blisters that would only take a few days to heal. The way her day had gone, she could have wound up sitting in an emergency waiting room for hours.
“Ice and aloe, a baker’s best friends.” She broke off a piece of aloe from the plant on her windowsill and treated the burns with it, then went to work cleaning up the mess on the floor. It wasn’t easy to do one-handed, but she managed.
It was late by the time she finished cleaning up. The sugar rush from the cookies and brownies she’d nibbled on had faded away, leaving her tired and emotionally drained. She tossed the thawed-out ice pack back into the freezer and picked up her phone to check the time. Almost eleven, and no word from either Maggie or Lisa.
Unease and worry slithered into her chest and coiled around her heart. They should have checked in by now. The three of them set up a system years ago. Whenever one of them went out on a date, they’d check in to let the others know they were okay. Once when they arrived and again when they were heading home. If things were going really well, they’d text or call and update the others on where they were heading next, and if they’d be out for the night.
Things were clearly going well for both her friends or they’d have sent a message by now. Should she act like a mother hen and call them for an update? She rejected that idea right away. Calling would be intrusive. She could text, though. She fired off a quick message to them both and hoped they wouldn’t think she was overreacting. She just wanted to know they were safe before she tried to get some sleep.
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Susan lives out on the Canadian west coast surrounded by open water, dear family, and good friends. She’s jumped out of perfectly good airplanes on purpose and accidentally swum with sharks on the Great Barrier Reef.
If the world ends, she plans to survive as the spunky, comedic sidekick to the heroes of the new world, because she’s too damned short and out of shape to make it on her own for long.
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