LEXIE
When I walked back into the kitchen, Willow didn’t even look up.
It was as though I’d become invisible.
“Hey… you got a minute?”
“Nope. Too busy to sit around chatting.”
She kept working.
I swallowed.
“Willow… please.”
“I’ve got work to do, Lexie.”
Still nothing.
No eye contact.
No smile.
Not even the smallest acknowledgment that I was standing there.
I wasn’t used to Willow shutting me out.
She had always been there.
Through everything.
And now, standing only a few feet away from my best friend while she deliberately ignored me, I felt more alone than I had in a very long time.
“Look, I’m sorry.”
She continued working.
“I was being a b***h. I know I was. I shouldn’t have treated you like that, and I’m sorry.”
Nothing.
“I mean it, Willow. I really am sorry.”
Fin
