Zeezee didn’t know what she would do when she got there, but she needed to go, to prove to herself that she wasn’t a quitter
“They’re testing you. You know that, right?”
ZeeZee raised a skeptical eyebrow at Rikki Klein, who’d just come back from work, and was now standing in the doorway of her apartment, blocking ZeeZee’s exit.
It was ZeeZee’s first time back babysitting at Rikki’s after her disastrous conclusion to the Yad b’Yad Rosh Chodesh event, and she’d seriously considered skipping today. She was so busy with the Chagigah preparations that it wouldn’t have even been a lie to say she didn’t have the time.
It wouldn’t have been lying — but it would have been chickening out. And ZeeZee Keller wasn’t a coward.
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