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fed it right back to you. Get over it.”
    She huffed, jumped up and ran out of the diner, leaving me and Tuck alone together once again.
    He smirked at me and said, “I think I might’a underestimated you a little bit.”
    I quirked a brow at him.
    He smiled full out and explained, “I like it.” The he popped a french fry in his mouth, picked up the ketchup bottle, squirted a blob of it on his plate, dipped a fry and held it out to me.
    “I guess word gets around in this town, huh?”
    He smiled and answered, “It does about you.”
    Great. I got up and started to walk away when he called after me. “What time’s Zumba over tomorrow? I’ll pick you up at your apartment after.”
    I thought about it and then gave in. What the hell. “I’ll be ready at Eleven.”
    “I’ll be there.”

Chapter 11
Eat My Words
    The next morning I got up and just threw clothes on. I had showered the night before when I got home to get the day of work and food off of me. I figured any further effort would be a waste since Ruthie talked me into going to Zumba with her.
    I would put in the unhealthy amount of effort women usually go to when I came back from Zumba, before Tuck picked me up. If I was going to spend the whole day with him I could at least give him more material for his comments by looking decent. Yeah , that was the reason. Denial, party of one.
    Anyway, I got up, threw clothes on, brushed my hair and teeth, and put my hair in a ponytail. I was sporting my lavender tee, a pair of shorts, and my converse. I pretty much looked how I looked every other day. I also lotioned my legs, as to not leave giant flakes of skin all over the Zumba studio.
    I made my way down the hall and into the kitchen to make my Coke. What? A Coke before going to workout made perfect sense to me. I opened the cabinet, got out one of my styrofoam to-go cups, filled it with ice, got a Coke out of the refrigerator and poured it in. I waited for the fizz to settle each time so that I could get every last drop in there.
    Finished Coke in hand, I grabbed my keys and purse off of the kitchen island turned left and headed for the door. I flipped the panel down on the alarm and entered the code to deactivate it. Looking down at myself making sure I got everything, I unlocked the deadbolts, turned back to the alarm and reactivated it, and went out the door. Finishing my routine of locking up, I jumped when I heard, “Hey!” shouted from right behind me. I did a jump and turn move to find Ruthie and Jezzy standing behind me.
    “Jesus. You guys scared the shit out of me!”
    Ruthie just shrugged to which I returned, “I see you don’t care about my heart health then. Nice to know now, I guess.”
    “Oh, whatever. Get over it you cry baby.”
    I rolled my eyes at her and asked, “What are you doing here anyway? I thought we were meeting there?”
    “Yeah, well, Jezzy decided to come too, and we wanted to make sure you didn’t back out.”
    I put my hand to my chest in mock offense and said, “Hey! I can’t believe you would think that of me!”
    “Well, I know you weren’t too fired up to come-”
    “No, no. I mean I’m offended that you think I would be dumb enough to stay home if I was gonna skip out on you. That’s the first place you would come looking for me. What do you think I am?”
    We all dissolved into a fit of laughter and started walking back toward Main Street. I decided to breech what I knew was probably going to be a sensitive subject while I had Ruthie relatively isolated. “So, Ruthie, what’s the deal with Bobby?” She started to get defensive immediately, but I kept right on going. “I mean don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen him, he’s definitely cute. And I’m not involved enough in your relationship to know how it really is, I get that. Just from what I’ve seen, or heard, he’s not good enough for you.”
    Before Ruthie could speak, Jezzy put in her two cents. “Yeah, totally, he’s is so not good enough for you! I