Adela was rambling on about polka dots and purple at a time like this? Miriam had very important news to be telling and Del was talking about potions! Mim couldn't very well just interrupt Adela, it would be rude. Maybe her dorm mate would shut up in a reasonable amount of time. Surely, as a seeker, a job that required a ton of patience, Miriam could find enough endurance to wait to tell someone the biggest thing to happen to her in all not quite sixteen years of her existence.

But Del just kept talking, and talking, and rambling, and talking, and… Well, screw that.

"Adela, I had sex with Grant." Mim interrupted far louder and more suddenly than she'd meant to. In her mind that sounded much better than it did out loud. Somehow everything had a way of doing that. Sex had seemed much better during it than it had the day after. Now she was back to being ok with it, but there was a brief period the next afternoon where she thought she'd made the biggest mistake of her life, and almost told her brother about it.

She felt her cheeks flushing slightly as she apologized. "Sorry, I just had to tell someone. I've been dying to tell someone, I just didn't know who to tell." She wasn't sure exactly what she expected Adela to tell her, probably nothing useful, as she couldn't imagine Del sleeping with anyone. She'd probably be rather boring in bed. Not that Miriam thought she was something spectacular, but now Mim had more experience than her friend, didn't she? Adela wouldn't have done it with out telling Mim, would she?

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