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[The mini-series, “Mount Bliss,” continues from “Pink Grapefruit”]
Saturday morning and Lola woke up in the large bed, but Collin was gone. She slipped into a robe she found and then surreptitiously snuck barefoot through the house to the guest bedroom where she and Lily had been staying. Though Collin had said it was fine with Suzanne that Lo and he slept together, she didn’t want to find out through a confrontation that he was lying or mistaken.
Lola found Lily sitting in bed, reading a book. Lily looked up, “Morning,” she said, as if nothing had transpired the previous night.
“Hi,” said Lo, a little shy after returning from sleeping with Lily’s uncle. It was a novel situation.
“Have a good night?” asked Lily.
Lo couldn’t wait to ask a thousand questions of her and this provided the opening for it.
“Why didn’t you tell me about your uncle’s horse accident?”
“What was I supposed to say, ‘A horse stepped on my uncle and now he can’t get his wee-wee up’?”
“Well, no, but you could have. . .” Lo thought for a moment. She sat on the bed next to Lily. “So you knew all along?”
“Knew what?”
Lo didn’t want to come across as accusatory. She pondered how to phrase her questions.