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Cassie [4:53 PM]
You’re the one who wants to go *scuba diving*
Erin never asked about Parker. Cassie couldn’t have told her anything even if she had.
The next Monday, after a weekend without hearing from Parker evenonce,Cassie decided to be the one to skip breakfast. She had class, so she still had to get up, but she didn’t have to eat in the dining hall. Lonely Reese’s Puffs in her apartment was a pathetic breakfast, but it worked.
Acacia [Today 8:15 AM]
Where are you?
Cassie lied.
Cassie [8:20 AM]
Just woke up sry. Gonna eat here so I can make class on time
Acacia [8:20 AM]
We both know you take .5 seconds to get ready for class. You got time for breakfast
Cassie [8:21 AM]
It’s cool. I’ll catch you at lunch or something
Cassie didn’t ask if Parker was there. It didn’t matter. She didn’t care. Her Reese’s Puffs were delicious, however pathetic, and there was no conspicuously empty seat at her apartment counter, the way there’d been in the cafeteria the past two weeks.
Erin [Today 8:25 AM]
Good morning
Cassie’s mood lifted. She held her phone up at an angle, snapped a quick selfie of her eating cereal. Except she almost missed her mouth and ended up with milk dripping down her chin. She sent the pic anyway. It wasn’t a great picture, but she’d noticed that while Erin usually sent photos of her coffee mug, or some other inanimate object, every time Cassie sent a selfie, Erin sent one back.
Sure enough, two minutes later, she got a shot of Erin in light green V-neck scrubs at work, wisps of hair already coming out of her ponytail and one eyebrow raised. She was so fucking hot.
Erin [8:28 AM]
I thought you were good at eating.
Sharing a bad selfie was definitely worth that picture of Erin. Cassie wanted to climb right through the phone and kiss that crooked smile.
Cassie [8:28 AM]
Don’t act like you don’t know that’s true
Erin sent back a smirking emoji that made Cassie grin. She ended up late to class.
When Parker’s name appeared on her phone, Cassie almost didn’t believe it.
CUNT CREW
Parker [Today 3:42 PM]
It’s been too long since we’ve had a movie night. Cassie you should come over after dinner
It was the first group text in a week. Cassie didn’t even have to scroll that far to find her message asking if she’d never see Parker again.
Here she was, pretending nothing was wrong. Like Cassie had been overreacting the past two weeks. Cassie could admit she wasn’t necessarily the best at understanding how friendships worked, but she knew Parker had disappeared on her. Maybe this was her olive branch.
