times are changing

 "Where's Angel?" Jody was frantic. She so needed her opinion. She and Andrew were not on the same page with their wedding again. He'd never liked the idea of getting married in a bar, but didn't he get it. It was free. Of course, he'd left the whole argument on pause most of the summer. He was working and still focusing on a degree in some kind of foreign business. Sometimes, she swore she didn't know him at all.

"Oh, she's left," Sal said and went back to the kitchen where he was making something possibly heavenly. He poured her a glass of sweet wine.

"How did you know I needed that?" She grinned. She gulped down half of it and then sighed. She sat down at the dining bar and watched him. "Where did she go?"

"Just next door."

"Next door?" She spoke louder than she meant to.

"She moved in with Jared."

"Jared!" Now her voice was alarming. "Are you sure?"

Sal nodded.

"Well, how come nobody told me?" Jody was in a fret then. She kicked her short legs about and her face was in a huff. "Nobody tells me anything."

Sal went to fill her glass again. 

"Don't drink it so fast this time, or you'll get just a bottle of water," he told her. She nodded. He would know these things. He was a bartender, after all.

"You know, Mom up and left for Colorado." She wasn't happy about it, but she knew no one cared. Her mom rarely called. She would be no help with the wedding.

"I think I read that on FACEBOOK," Sal said while he was choping celery as the onion sizzled with the meat.

"FACEBOOK?" Jody didn't like being on social media. She hated some of the silly things her mom posted. It was like Redneck Heaven with all her country-loving swag. She stared at her glass of wine.

"Did you know Jared was seeing Angel?" Jody wanted to know.

Sal shook his head, no. 

"I wonder if it'll last?" Jody hated to bring it up, but then her brother wasn't exactly a one-woman kind of man. She thought she should discuss this with Angel. "Did you tell her about him?"

He shook his head, no. "It wouldn't have done any good," he said some things just had to be learned on their own.

If only someone had told her about Andrew, she might have listened. But at the time, he was the most fascinating being she'd ever found and thought he was her future. She knew now she still wanted him to be her future, even if he'd lost some of his luster.