Chapter 55 – Negotiations

• “Oh!” I says, and then I give Kent a big smile. I’m excited, after all. “Out, actually! Daniel just came by and asked me if I want to go to dinner.”
• Kent smiles at me then, just raising the little corner of his mouth. “The black, then,” he says, nodding towards a little minidress still hanging in my closet. “That’s better, for a city dinner.”
• I considers the dress, which is really just a scrap of fabric. I pull it out and look it up and down. “You don’t think it’s too…” I say, hesitating and looking up at him, a little embarrassed. “Well, slutty?”