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Hey, Alexander
texted me and it’s a go for Saturday night. Nicholas is ready to
meet you.”
    Hearing that brought a
smile to Rhoda’s face and she ate the rest of her mac and cheese.
“Good, because I’m lookin’ forward to seeing him. I need a man in
my life so I can get some business outside the hospital. Plus my
mom’s gettin’ on my last nerves with her ‘the best men are the ones you meet in church’ bullcrap!” Rhoda stabbed a piece of the steak and
plunked it in between her lips.
    “ Oh, so the whole scandals
with priests molesting children doesn’t matter? And what about all
the people who have problems with gays and lesbians?”
    Oh boy.
    Rhoda didn’t want to get
Sharnette on her GLBT soapbox. Not that she didn’t agree, but it
didn’t directly affect her.
    She’d much rather talk
about animal cruelty.
    “ Well, Nettie, that’s a
big issue and that’s why I don’t agree with her. There’s no one at
her church I’d want to meet up with anyway. I like my men a certain
way and I doubt I’ll find him in the pews of AMC
Baptist.”
    “ Right, I know you won’t.
Hopefully, you and Doc Fairlight will hit it off, Rho. The two of
you would make such a lovely couple.”
    “ We would?” Rhoda nodded
and smiled in agreement. “I’m ready to meet him more than ever
then. You have to give me some ideas on what to wear on Saturday
night.”
    “ Okay, sure. A sexy black
dress, maybe, with just the right earrings and some high
heels…”
    “ No stilettos, I
hope.”
    “ Nah, maybe just some
pumps, even though black stilettos would have a positive effect on
a man. I wear ‘em all the time for Alex, even in bed.”
    “ Uh… TMI!” Rhoda held up
her free hand. “I read about your sex life in your books. I don’t
think I wanna hear anymore.”
    Sharenette chuckled and
wiped the corners of her mouth with the cloth napkin. “Heh, and you
don’t enjoy it? I mean, I’m givin’ you a vivid picture and maybe
even some pointers, Rho. Never know when you might wanna use ‘em on
somebody.”
    “ I seriously doubt that.
I’m pretty vanilla when it comes to sex. Good ol’ missionary never
hurt anybody,” she stated proudly, drawing stares from a couple of
people walking past.
    Sharnette snorted and
gulped down her soda, trying to keep it from coming out her
nose.
    “ Damnit, Nettie, you
always get me in trouble.” Rhoda slumped down in her seat and
tapped her fingers on the table in front of her.
    She hated talking about the
sex word in public and this would be the other reason
why.
    After enduring several more
days of work at the medical center delivering babies, Saturday
finally arrived. Rhoda’s first weekend day off in quite some time
and she was thrilled to be doing something fun.
    Sharnette took her
shopping the day prior in a boutique that specialized in curvy
women’s clothing, buying her the best-looking black dress in the
shop. Rhoda could afford it but Sharnette insisted on paying for it
as an early Christmas gift. She remarked, “ Gotta get ya outta your shell
somehow, girlie. Lemme at least do this for ya.”
    Despite being able to
purchase the dress, Rhoda didn’t balk and accepted her best
friend’s kind gesture. Not that she did it regularly,
anyway.
    Once she finished putting
on lotion and the proper undergarments, Rhoda pulled the dress out
of the bag and grinned at the sight. Spaghetti straps, the cleavage
portion dipped low, and the just above her knees, which she loved.
The back crisscrossed; since the heat was still on in North
Carolina, even at this time of year, it would be no problem to wear
the dress with a shawl covering her back.
    “ Mmhm… I hope it fits the
same as it did yesterday,” she joked to herself and slipped the
dress over her head. To her delight, it did fit exactly the same
way, like a glove. In the mirror she modeled it for herself, making
sure the straps were lined up correctly and the strapless bra was
still doing its job to hold off the gravity