"When Emily Stevenson returns home for her brother’s wedding, she’s surprised at how little her hometown has changed in the twenty years she’s been gone. Before she heads to her parents’ house, she stops at Waffle House for a bite to eat.
There she runs into Jenna McAllister, her former best friend in school whom she hasn’t seen in years. Jenna stirs up emotions Emily hasn’t felt in quite a while, and not just of friendship, either.
But is she the only one?
Note: This short story was originally published in the charity collection, Love Is Proud."
BFFs By J.T. Marie It’s a little after seven-thirty in the evening when Emily Stevenson pulls off Jeff Davis Highway and into the Waffle House parking lot. Though the sun has dipped below the trees and businesses lining the main drag of South Market, Virginia, where Emily grew up, it’s still light out, and most likely will be for another hour or so. She’s been on the road for more than an hour, but now that her parents’ home is only minutes away, she wants to delay the inevitable as long as she can. A cup of coffee should kill fifteen minutes, at least. Time enough to pull back into herself, the way she used to when she lived here. Though it’s been twenty years since she was last in South Market, Emily swears nothing has changed. A 7-11 still stands across from the Waffle House, on the
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