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“I’ve been thinking about it for months. And maybe I need to get away.”
“Can’t we just go do a spa weekend?”
“I’m going to miss you too, Chrissy, but I think this will be good for me.”
She sits back down on the couch and pops the top on the wine.
“Well,” she says and pours the wine into my mug.
“I support you one hundred percent. If you say this is what you need, then I would never stand in your way.”
We lift our mugs, clink them together and take a drink. As I bring my mug down, I look at the funny picture on the front. It’s a cartoon chickadee with big sad eyes and it says, “Excuse me, the squirrels ate all the bird seed.” It makes me smile every time I read it.
“So, when do you leave?”
“In two weeks.”
She spits her wine out a little and her hand flies to cover her mouth. She gulps down the liquid in her mouth and wipes her lips along the side of her hand.
“I’m sorry. Two weeks? That’s like tomorrow.”
The doorbell rings, and I stand to answer it, knowing it’s our takeout.
“You’re so dramatic.”
“Me? Dramatic?”
I pay the delivery guy and grab a couple paper plates.
“Yes.” I say as I open everything and start splitting the food.
“Says the woman who’s leaving the state for a month to look at birds because her boyfriend broke up with her.”
My face drops, and I look at her.
“Sorry, too soon?”
“Yeah, too soon,” I say and hand her a plate of food.
“I guess we all have our own way of coping with things,” she says.
“That’s right. Remember our senior year when Brian broke up with you on the last day of school? You thought it was the end of the world. You laid in bed for a week and lived off chocolate and potato chips.”
She nods her head in agreement.
“That wasn’t my most shining moment. Fair enough.”
"And I wanted to go on this trip with Chad. But him leaving me isn't going to stop me from doing something I love.
I pop my eyebrows up and nod back at her. I take a bite of a Rangoon and grab the remote to turn on a movie.
“21 dresses?” I ask.
“Absolutely.”
“Story of our lives.”
“Isn’t that the truth.”
