“So what happened?” Nikki asked Lacey, her eyes transparent with disbelief as she looked first to the girls and then to Lacey.
“Let her start at the beginning, Nikki,” Susie chided, and Sophie voiced her agreement. Lacey let out a sigh of contentment as she took a sip of her wine. They had all gathered in her living room sprawled out on the couch and the floor like a group of schoolgirls at a slumber party. The Bluetooth speaker was playing in the background but was barely audible above all their chatter. Lacey smiled, caught up in the inquisitiveness of her friends. It was hard to remain sad around them; that was for sure. It was so good to finally be with them again. It had been a long month for all of them without their usual get-togethers, but sometimes that’s just the way that it was
