Talking in the car with Julie, then Mary's diner

Post-débacle tidy-up completed, you look to Julie, buckled up in the front passenger seat. The look on her face goes with the feeling in Julie's voice when she said Take me anywhere, anywhere with you.

"Let's go visit the diner where Mary works," you tell Julie. "If Mary's there, she'll find a little magic for us."

Julie laughs. "Leaning into your Lesbian Evangelist much, Gloria?" she says. "But sure." She rests her hand over yours.

"You can help keep it all from going to my head," you tell her.

Julie gives you a rueful look. "Maybe? I mean, the way you found out about me and Cara, well?"

"Hmm," you say. "Well, at least the husbands are still 'whatever, just don't hurt anyone'. At least Vincent is. Though Vincent being Vincent, he just had to add, 'unless they deserve it.'"

"Hahaha, I like Vincent," Julie says. "He can almost do the movie actor voice."

"How about yours, what does he say?" you ask Julie.

Julie says, "Alvin's the same. Don't hurt anyone. Tell him about the sex, well, more about that at the beginning. Eventually 'Lorelei and I had our regular' was good enough. But still, tell him everything happy and everything I'm seriously worried about. Just text if I'm going to be home for dinner, and if I'm making it or he is. We got a chest freezer full of boxed dinner, and we use it."

You laugh. "My Vincent, like the famous one, enjoys cooking. I think our division of labor is that he cooks and I laugh at his jokes. I asked him once how he decided I was the girl he wanted. Vincent told me that I was the one because nobody else knew when he was serious or when he was joking."

"Oh? Didn't you say Vincent wanted you because he had a thing for nurses, like Columbia?" Julie asks.

"That's what made him brave enough to talk with me," you say. You smile. "I think my capers have reawakened his nurse fetish, happily for both of us. But, well, I never had any trouble understanding him, and I don't know why anyone would have."

"I think I know why, Gloria," Julie says. She swallows. "Can you guess?"

"Oh," you say. You remember an argument with your daughter Jillian, one day when you were frustrated with each other. "I took him at his word. I don't look for hidden meanings." You bow your head. "It's why I didn't notice that you had a crush on me. I didn't even think to look."

"The biggest crush," Julie said. "For years."

"And now we're lovers?" you say. You say again, more confidently. "Lovers. And I'm glad...I'm glad you were waiting for me. Someone I know and trust."

"I'm glad too," Julie says.

You wrap your arms round each other, holding each other closely, chin to shoulder, ear to ear, as best you can do in the front seat.

Roll +HOT(+1) to TELL HER: 3+1 = 4, Miss.

"Closed?" you say, perplexed.

Julie points. "I think it was a kitchen fire," she says. "You see the smoke marks, and the caution tape?"

"Oh," you say. "Some people aren't going to be getting their pie."

"Good news for Waffle House until they get their kitchen back in shape," Julie says.

"If you were going to go parking," you ask Julie, "Where would you go?"

"For real?" Julie says. "My driveway. If it's not too late." She yawns.

"All right then." You start up and roll toward the highway.

"Take me home, country roads," Julie says.

"Do you know all the words?" you ask.

"I think so."

"Sing it to me, Julie."

"Almost heaven..." she starts.

She does know all the words.

You pull into the driveway of the little house where she and her husband Alvin live, turn off the lights and set the brake.

A soft, sweet kiss breaks off when Julie yawns.

You stroke a fingertip under her chin. "Can we? I'll do all the work. Get you onto third base, and all you have to do is steal home."

Julie laughs. "Did Vincent use that line on you?"

"Nope, all me. May I?"

You have 0 XP, +1 Hard, +1 Hot, +0 Cool, -1 Control, Multiple Orgasms, Lesbian, and Truth.

Roll +HOT(+2, with Lesbian) to TELL HER you want to make out in her driveway: 6+2 = 8. She will if you turn her on.