The sun was skimming across the early evening horizon and slanting into the living room, casting an orange glow over everything as Sophia settled onto the couch, her mind racing. It had been a long day filled with questions that lingered, an emotional weight to the past few weeks. She loved Victor, but things felt off-kilter, ever since Isabella had gone into rehab, and she couldn't shake the feeling that her own struggles were threatening to pull them apart.
She reached for her phone and scrolled through her messages, stopping at a text from Lexie that read, "Hey, can we meet up? I gotta talk about something."
Sophia furrowed her brow, a desperation in her friend's message. "Of course! Is everything okay?"
"Yeah, just a lot on my mind. Can we meet at our usual spot?" Lexie replied.
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