“No really, it is.”
“Girlie, pu-lease. I had a hot guy like that I’d be all over him, embarrassing my friends enough to leave early so I could really be all over him.”
“You do have a hot guy like that,” I told him.
“Not the same ten years on. You two are in the first blush of romance. You should be going at it like rabbits.”
“I broke up with him,” I blurted, do not ask me why, I shouldn’t have and I knew it.
Tod blinked at me, face shocked.
See? I knew I shouldn’t have.
“What?” he asked.
“I broke up with him when I ran out of the room after I saw the flowers. I called him and broke up with him. We made a deal, he gets tonight then we’re over.”
“You said you phoned to thank him,” Tod told me.
“I kinda… um… fibbed.”
Tod looked at me. He opened his mouth then closed it and looked away. Then he looked back, opened his mouth again and yelled, “Are you f**king nuts?”
Most everyone turned to stare including, to my horror, Vance.
I turned to Tod, my back to the room (and Vance). “Tod! Keep your voice down.”
“Girl, that boy is hot for you, not to mention that boy is just plain hot.”
“Tod –”
“You need a doctor. You need an intervention. You need Daisy,” Tod said and started looking around the room.
“No! Do not call Daisy over here. Why do you think I fibbed to you earlier today? I didn’t want this kind of reaction.”
“What’s going on?” Roxie hissed from beside us. She looked gorgeous, wearing a figure-skimming, strapless, little black dress of her own and her shoes were nearly as amazing as mine.
“Jules broke up with Vance. It’s over. Done. Kaput,” Tod announced.
“What?” Roxie screeched.
This time I felt the room’s attention on my back at Roxie’s outburst.
I closed my eyes (I really shouldn’t have told Tod) then I opened them. “Please, be quiet,” I begged.
“Why did you break up with him?” Roxie asked in a low voice.
“It’s too complicated to explain.”
“But… he’s macho, he rides a Harley and he bought you flowers. Macho men who ride Harleys don’t buy women flowers. They take them to a roadhouse and get them drunk and get in their pants,” Roxie explained.
“What’s happening?” Ally asked, she and Indy had arrived together.
“Don’t tell them,” I said quickly.
“Jules broke up with Vance. It’s over,” Roxie said over me.
Both of them turned to stare at me.