COFFEE DATE

It was the weekend and Tyler was out with Gabriel. Gabe had dropped by at the house earlier to talk to Tyler and her boyfriend had ended up following him out on her insistence. Sophie was moving about the house trying to finish doing the dishes when her phone started ringing.

She bolted out of the kitchen to check who was calling. She made no plans with anybody for that weekend except for Kristen who had insisted on dropping by from the salon in a few minutes so they could go check out the place she had decided to purchase for her art gallery.

But when she picked up her phone, it wasn't Kristen's name flashing on the ID. It was Mira's. With her brows furrowing, Sophie answered the call and placed it on speaker to talk to her father's wife.

“Hi, Sophie!” The woman's voice was chirpy, better than she had ever heard it. Sophie swallowed, trying not to scratch her itchy hair. She needed to find time to go to the salon one of these days.

“Hi,” she mumbled back, her voice low and quite uns