Don't let the opinion of one stop your growth

 "A ring? Dylan gave Tori a ring?" It didn't sit well with Caitlin. Megan could tell. She knew she shouldn't have shown her the picture he sent. Of course, they were wearing the couples rings ever so happily.

Caitlin was slowly getting her things in boxes to take to Deano's.

"Can I call him Dean," Megan found herself asking?

"What?" Caitlin squinted as if that was ridiculous.

"I don't know him that well, and I feel Deano is some kind of nickname," Megan told her.

Caitlin looked at Megan as if she didn't need to answer. Megan could see Caitlin was still pondering over the fact that evidently Dylan and Tori were together.

"How? How did that happen?" Caitlin was even lipped but Megan saw a frown forming. 

"God, can't you just be happy for them?" Megan found an empty box on the floor and put it on the bed.

"I want a ring," Caitlin quietly said. Megan could barely hear her, but she didn't ask.

"It could happen," Megan told her Deano was a likable guy who would probably do anything Caitlin asked.

"I don't want to ask," Caitlin said out of frustration as she chunked an old candle in the trash. It was hardly used, but dusty.

"Well, these things take time."

"It didn't for you. And obviously not for Tori either," Caitlin snapped.

"Are you sure...this is about a ring?" Megan squinted, thinking Caitlin and Dylan were probably more than friends. Possibly friends with benefits. She gave Caitlin a pat on the back but she flinched. Megan took her hand away, not sure how to solve the problem. 

"You have to be patient," Megan told her exactly what her grandmother always said.

Caitlin only sighed.

"Are you sure you even want to live with Dean?" Megan told her she didn't have to move in with him.

"I have to." Caitlin swelled a frown. She said he was the only sane thing in her life, anymore. "He's good to me, and I like him in bed."

Megan looked at her wide-eyed.

"But you don't love him?"

"I dunno." Caitlin barely said above a whisper. "I want to. I need to." She said things would have never worked out with Dylan. "Besides, he doesn't have a dick and I need one, sometimes." Caitlin was blunt, but it was like listening to things one might pick up at the drugstore.

Megan only cleared her throat. Thankfully, Caitlin took her cue and they both gathered things for her to take to Deano's.