'Cause when I think of you

 "Do you think Rico is really happy?" Vada said a few days later when she and Sammie were out for coffee after classes.

"I think so," she nodded. "Didn't he look happy?" Sammie said she didn't think he was faking it with Mona. "He's known her for a while."

"Really?" Vada winced. It didn't look like that to her. She thought he'd just met Mona and now he'd moved in with her. "Wasn't his Dad against it?" 

Vada couldn't help to be peeved because his dad always made her feel she was too adult to be around his son. 

"Oh, let's don't even go there," Sammie told her they'd either work it out or just move on. "Just like you and Kevin."

"But we're not living together," she pressed her lips as if she was behind in the game of life.

"Well, what's the hurry?" Sammie looked at her as if she was her own worst enemy. Vada knew that look. She'd seen it before. She knew Sammie tried to stop her from moving so quickly with Justin, and she was right.

"But what about you and Gabe?" She thought that was a whirlwind something.

"What about us?" Sammie said he'd always been there for her and she never had that with anyone else. Not even family. "I knew he was the one, the moment he walked in through the door at the pizza place."

"You make it sound so easy," she shook her head.

"I didn't question it," Sammie sighed. 

"And you're still not questioning it?"

Sammie shook her head, no. "Look, I know he's going through something right now with his mom and his brother, but...but we're fine. We like where we live. He's got a good job. He can take classes that the company will pay for."

"But he never went to college," she made it sound as if he'd always be blue-collar.

"A lot of people won't do those kind of jobs anymore. And he likes it," Sammie was straight-lipped about his manual labor job with the plumbing company. "See he knows how you are. You do snub your nose about certain ordinary people. We can't all be you."

Now Vada swelled a frown. She didn't want to have a spat with her best friend. After all, Sammie helped her with everything. If she wasn't giving her a pep talk about work, then she was customizing an outfit for Vada. 

Yes, maybe wanted wanted too much. And Kevin might be the best thing that had ever happened to her with that sweet smile of his. He was so down to earth. She didn't know she could sink that low, but actually, it had made her more centered.