EVIE’S POV
I hadn’t realised how much I’d needed this.
Not the takeaway spread across my coffee table.
Not the television playing quietly in the background.
Not even the chance to sit in joggers and pretend the outside world didn’t exist for a few hours.
It was them.
Bailey and Kayleigh.
The people who knew me before Liam.
The people who had watched me slowly piece myself back together afterwards.
The people who never expected anything from me except honesty.
At some point during the evening Kayleigh had completely switched into mum mode.
Not actual mum mode.
Kayleigh mode.
Which was somehow worse.
She’d made me drink water.
She’d stolen my third cup of tea.
She’d informed me I looked tired.
Then she’d informed me again.
And then she’d informed Bailey as if I wasn’t sitt
