Sister Circle✔️

31. Princess Pepper Wants

Zavrina POV

"So what's up with ya girl?"

"Who?" Lark asked while they were hanging in her room because she was on duty.

She lay on her bed eating Red Hot Riplets and a strawberry Vess soda her mom sent her a supply of every month. She was so St. Louis, now all she needed was some Imo's toasted ravioli and provel cheese bites. On her next trip back home for sure, she was going in on some hometown food.

"Your little line mate. You two should be besties by now. I know my two line sisters drove me crazy but they are my rocks. I can call them any time of the day when I am through something and they got me."

Lark had some of her Kansas City food, which she thought was gross. Cheese slippers and sour cream and raisin pie? They were country as hell for that. And never mind their barbecue. Gates was so hood, the one time she was in KC she stepped in, and then right out the place.

Lark munched on that cheese slipper, basically a loaf of bread with cheese curds baked in it, like it was better than an Asiago cheese bagel from St. Louis Bread Company.

"Essence is...very guarded. It's like she picks and chooses what to tell me. I'm not pushing her about her life...I can understand wanting some privacy." Lark smirked at her. "Don't you?"

"What does that mean?" she asked, licking the red hot dust from her fingers.

"Why did you ask me to help Kenyon?"

She squinted her eyes at her. Why did she have to ask about the one subject she did not want to talk about? She was off the Kenyon train and thinking about him just gave her a headache and a heartache. He wanted something she could not offer him. She was sure he had moved on.

"That boy came to me asking me to help him with a class that I don't know. You and he have the same major, right?"

"Almost the same, but okay."

"Is he bothering you?"

"No, Kenyon is cool."

She wondered if he tried to hit on her. That would be real foul, him hitting on her friend. She didn't put anything past the boy. Then Lark would be her soror soon and that would be awkward. Though Lark had a boyfriend, he was a whole mess, and maybe she would think Kenyon was a better catch. What if they hooked up?

She shook the thought from her head.

"How are you and Ross?"

"We're on a break."

"I don't even know what that means! So you broke up with him?"

"No...just a break. We need to know what we want...well, I need to know."

"Did you tell him you were pledging?"

Lark sat there pretending she could not speak all of a sudden. She was not even going to press the issue. That boy had some issues, but that was not for her to say. She was not going to get in between their relationship. She was not one to talk about what worked and what did not in a relationship. She didn't even have one.

Whatever she had with Kenyon was over, and that was nothing but fuck buddies.

Although she did care for him.

Shit! Now she was thinking about the boy again. She was pathetic.

"Lark, talk about something. Tell me about your plans after graduation." Keeping her mind clear would stop her from texting him to see what he was up to. Their little cat-and-mouse game, still in effect. They "break up" they spend time apart, and then one of them broke down.