“Do you really need to go to work today?”
“For the hundredth time, Rachael, yes,” Charlotte replied her best friend, grabbing her purse to throw it around her shoulder. “I have to go to work. I don’t have a good enough reason to skip.”
“You do, actually.”
“So you expect me to tell them at work I wouldn’t be present cause I broke up with my boyfriend? My fake boyfriend?”
“Charlotte-”
“No,” Charlotte shook her head, cutting her best friend. “There’s no point to that. I’m fine. And to show that, I’m going to go to work and pretend nothing happened.”
Pretend. That was the keyword. She was going to have to pretend nothing happened when indeed everything happened.
She understood Rachael’s worry but after crying in her arms for way too long, she didn’t want to get her all worried about her
