Chapter 283: Carla

Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.

~Westley in The Princess Bride

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July, 2020

Carla took a sip of her coffee and settled back against the bench seat of the bakery with a happy sigh. When Hannah'd had the temerity to get married, it'd thrown a real wrench in the works for the meetings of the Early Spinster's Club, and she and Michelle had floundered around a bit, unsure of what to do. They couldn't have meetings for a club with two people in it.

And then Michelle had struck up a conversation with Autumn one day while at the shop, waiting for Carla to finish helping a customer, and began probing for deets when it came to Autumn's love life. Carla had missed the whole thing, what with being busy and all with her customer, but Michelle told her all about it with relish afterwards.

"I told Autumn her boyfriend, Johnny, is so worthless, she might as well be single - "

"You didn't!" Carla had broken in, and then had started laughing. "Oh, Michelle."