Waiting nervously for her friend to answer, Veronica paced around her front room.
"Hey," Nellie was sounding more and more cheerful these days.
She and Rick were speaking more now. Though she still hadn't decided what she was going to do about the marriage, she wasn't nearly as depressed as she'd been when it first happened.
After asking her about how she'd been doing and Nellie filling her in on her latest conversation with Rick, which didn't offer anything new, she got to her real reason for calling. She'd already told her about the awkward way she found out how much younger Noah was. Nellie didn't seem to agree with Veronica about how inappropriate it would be to do anything social with him out of the gym.
"Veronica, you act like you've never had lunch or gone to a movie with a male
