‘Tell me everything. What’s been going on all these years? Besides your badass career, I mean.’
I laughed awkwardly. It had been so long since anyone had even asked. I was painfully aware that I had nothing to say.
‘You first. What do you do professionally?’ I bluffed. ‘And who’s this guy you married?’
‘Oh, I can’t wait for you to meet him,’ Andrea gushed. Part of me lifted at that – the acknowledgment that there would be opportunity to meet him, that this wasn’t it for us. As she talked about Rob, the way they’d met, and the house they’d just recently purchased upstate after a year of renting, I couldn’t help but lose myself in the fantasy – becoming friends with both of them, spending holidays at their home. Being part of a real family.
‘And so that was when he proposed!’ she finishe
