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HEIDI
I tap my pencil against the page of my sketchbook. Normally, when I have time to kill, I’ll just sit down and start drawing and the next thing I’d know it’s the middle of the night and all of my thoughts are yesterday’s problems. I can’t seem to get anything started now, though. All I can do is replay Drew’s confession of love in my head.
I’m in love with you.
I have been since the first time I saw you.
It’s the moment people spend their entire lives waiting for.
Too bad Seth had to be there to ruin the whole damn thing.
Jenna passes by my open door. Again.
I sigh. “You can come in, Jenna,” I say.
“Hm?” she asks, pausing in the doorway. “What?”
I sit back in my desk chair, abandoning the sketchbook. “You’ve been pacing around for like an hour.”
“No,” she says. “Well. I don’t know. Maybe a little.”
“What’s up?”
She lingers in place, nervously biting her lip. “Are we okay?” she asks.
“I don’t know,” I answer honestly.
“Are we... going to be okay? Someday? Preferably soon?”
At first, I don’t answer. I’m not even sure how to answer. “I hope so,” I say.
“Then...” She exhales slowly. “I know you probably don’t care to hear what I have to say right now, considering that I literally imploded your life today, but... can I say something real quick? Please?”
I nod.
Jenna walks into the room and plants herself on the edge of my bed. She fidgets for a few moments before taking a deep breath to compose herself. “I’m not sure how obvious this is to you, but I want you to know that I don’t know how to function without you,” she says. “I never want to know, either.”
I keep quiet, letting her say what she needs to say.
“Heidi, you are my best friend. In fact, you’re kind of my only friend. Possibly the only real friend I’ve ever had. I don’t think I’ve ever told you that.”
I shake my head once.
“I’ve done so much to drive away literally everyone but, for some reason, you’ve stuck around,” she says, her eyes glistening. “There is nothing I want more in this world than for you to be happy. This week, I took that too far. Today wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for me, and I am so sorry.”
“Are you sure?” I quip. “Because I haven’t heard that from you yet today.”
Her lips twitch. “And, judging by you cracking jokes, is it safe to assume that you accept my apology?”
I shrug a shoulder. “Is there a reason I wouldn’t?”
“Because I’m a bitch,” she says. “I’m an asshole. A cunt with a capital C.”
I snort. “Well, I wasn’t going to say it out loud.”
“And that’s why I love you, Heidi. You’re a better person than I am. A prettier, smarter, and more forgiving person, one might say.”
“You think I’m prettier?”
