"Yeah." Vanessa brightened as well and they sat there together on the bed gossiping about the girls while Jalissa promised that they would all get together as soon as she got hold of them.
Jalissa rubbed her stomach. "Lets do that later. I'm kind of hungry. Want to walk down to Stop-N-Shop?" Vanessa remembered going to the little market nearly everyday during the last summer of her stay in Winton Terrace. "Girl I can eat up some cheese popcorn every since I got pregnant; that and hot pickles and fish dinners."
"Fish dinner from Alabama's fish bar?" Vanessa laughed. "I haven't had one of those in years."
"That's what you get for moving to the suburbs."
They went outside and Jalissa threw her arms around Vanessa just like the old days. "Girl, I missed you! Tell me what you've been up to. You got a boyfriend?"