120 - Secret Affair?

Lola Coker doesn’t pray very often.

Yet she made a sloppy sign of the cross, touching her forehead, chest, and shoulders before springing up from her chair and walking past the door, tiptoeing to the entrance of the storeroom which was close to the kitchen.

The store room’s door was left slightly ajar, letting Maria’s sweet voice and laughter filter out of the room. Lola gulped and paused to listen in, careful not to lean on the door and make a noise.

“Yeah that, I remember...” Maria said and laughed into the phone. “You wanted turkey on the menu. I wanted us to try the chicken stripes. How could I forget?.”

At first, the one-sided conversation from Maria on Lola’s end made no sense. But slowly, Lola could vaguely guess what they were on about.

“A dinner? lunch? Hmmm…have they known each other that long?.” Lola thought.

“The girls?.” Maria asked suddenly.

“Girls?.” Lola concentrated once again. She and Aria? Is he perhaps..someone they know?

“They are having breakfast..” Maria cont