you?”
That earned Dani a grin. “Yup. Something like that.”
“Do you know who’s running for senator this year? I
assume of, uh, this state?”
Andi didn’t make fun of Dani’s total and utter lack of
knowledge about anything political. She just nodded and left it
at that.
“Hmm.” It was Dani’s turn to make the little grunting sound
and to freeze.
She eventually lifted her hand and smoothed it along her
hair, knocking her scarf out of place. The thing slipped out of
her hair at least ten times a day, even with pins. She pulled it
free and shook out her hair. It felt good to have the pins away
from her scalp. The pounding going on in her temples was
rapidly spreading out to the rest of her head.
“Would you be able to find out if the candidates or people or
whatever you call them, whoever’s running, have kids? And
what their names are?”
Andi bit down on her lip for a minute, probably uncertain
where the sudden change in conversation was going. Dani had
always made it clear she didn’t want to talk politics and now
she’d had an abrupt change of mind. Andi had every right to
be suspicious and wary.
“If it’s public knowledge, I could, but I wouldn’t do any
digging. That’s kind of dirty, doing things like that, in my
opinion.”
“Yeah. For sure. I get that. But if you could find out, would
you give me a list?”
“I don’t—does this have something to do with the store? Or
the landlord dude? Because I’m seriously at a loss here.”