{"id":15014,"date":"2020-10-30T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asliceoforange.net\/?p=15014"},"modified":"2020-10-27T21:41:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T02:41:09","slug":"it-had-to-be-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asliceoforange.net\/it-had-to-be-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It Had to be You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/it-had-to-be-you.png?resize=1024%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/it-had-to-be-you.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/it-had-to-be-you.png?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/it-had-to-be-you.png?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/it-had-to-be-you.png?resize=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/it-had-to-be-you.png?resize=571%2C286&amp;ssl=1 571w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/it-had-to-be-you.png?resize=371%2C186&amp;ssl=1 371w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/it-had-to-be-you.png?resize=271%2C136&amp;ssl=1 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-divider ugb-divider ugb-8e84791 ugb-divider--v2 ugb-divider--design-basic ugb-main-block\" id=\"\"><style>.ugb-8e84791 hr.ugb-divider__hr{margin-left:auto !important;margin-right:auto !important}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><hr class=\"ugb-divider__hr\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash.jpg?resize=328%2C491&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15015\" width=\"328\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=533%2C800&amp;ssl=1 533w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=267%2C400&amp;ssl=1 267w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=1170%2C1755&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=571%2C857&amp;ssl=1 571w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=371%2C557&amp;ssl=1 371w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=271%2C407&amp;ssl=1 271w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asliceoforange.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/luke-stackpoole-TRXSkmJb40c-unsplash-scaled.jpg?w=1707&amp;ssl=1 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Photo by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@withluke?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Luke Stackpoole<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/moon?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Tatum checked the time: twenty minutes after Luna Hour 17, and Avery still hadn&#8217;t shown up. It was Tuesday Happy Hour, their ritual weekly date since Tatum was hired by the Zoning &amp; Mining Commission last year. Not that she ever called it a date; she and Avery&nbsp;<em>weren&#8217;t<\/em>&nbsp;an item. She was sure of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Tatum enjoyed Avery&#8217;s company, and Rick&#8217;s Caf\u00e9 in Luna Center made the best Frozen Tychos in the entire city compound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avery was the one who had suggested that they hit Rick&#8217;s\u2014Tuesdays were Ladies Night, a retro gimmick that appealed to the younger crowd in Luna City, which was pretty much the entire population. Luna Council had an upper age limit for immigrants, with the result: almost no one was over fifty-five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Another Tycho?&#8221; the wait staffer in Luna blue murmured at Tatum&#8217;s side.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tatum nodded.&nbsp;<em>What the hell<\/em>. If Avery was standing her up\u2014but he wasn&#8217;t, because they weren&#8217;t an item\u2014then why not make the most of the evening before she headed back down to her pod on Level 9?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cabaret was full, standing room only at this point, and Tatum watched the crowd churning through the room, laughing, talking, bouncing in the low gravity\u2014one table was even singing a rousing happy birthday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She sighed and drained her glass. Elbow to elbow with more people than she could count yet very, very alone: the life of an introvert engineer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;May I?&#8221; A goateed man about her age nodded to the empty chair opposite her. He wore the dark green shirt and pants of the Air Quality division. &#8220;Our table needs an extra chair and this one is . . . &#8221; He shrugged and smiled. It was a warm smile, a friendly one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tatum shrugged back. &#8220;Go ahead. I got ghosted. 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