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"Really, guys. I'm fine. Stop worrying about me. If it happens, it happens."
Alice walks over to Bella and puts her arm across her shoulders. "We just worry about you, Bella."
Rose steps a little closer, too. "But you do actually have to go out in public and meet men to have even the possibility of meeting Mr. Right."
"I go out," Bella defends.
"Here, the grocery store, the library and occasionally the gym, don't count as 'going out."
Bella doesn't respond, but instead takes a long drink of her coffee. "Great coffee as usual, Alice," she says, changing the subject before leaving the room to prepare for her first client of the day.
Her morning clients are regulars that she sees monthly. An eyebrow wax, a bikini wax, a Brazilian, laser hair removal and resurfacing, a little Botox here and Restylane there, and so on. Most days are similar to the next. Her return clients are her bread and butter. Most of whom she is happy to see.