Wallflowers 'R Us
The only way Jesse was going to stop working was the electricity at her office going out, which it did thanks to a tropical storm passing through on its way to dumping tons of rain on New England. She could have taken her work home but...
Sigh.
"I'll just pop in and show my face and then I'll be done," she murmurs as she, in a pair of jeans and a blouse and looking and feeling a little square, walks up to the entrance of the chili party.
She's there for all of twenty seconds, the amount of time necessary to pick tousled red hair out of the crowd. Then she beats a hasty retreat.
Sigh.
"I'll just pop in and show my face and then I'll be done," she murmurs as she, in a pair of jeans and a blouse and looking and feeling a little square, walks up to the entrance of the chili party.
She's there for all of twenty seconds, the amount of time necessary to pick tousled red hair out of the crowd. Then she beats a hasty retreat.