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She had to jog to keep up, and after a few minutes she called Gillian’s name. Gillian turned. Pulled the earbuds from her ears.
“Lenna!” She looked confused but happy. “You came after all!”
Gillian was sochipper.But Lenna felt the phone in her pocket. She thought of the wordducking.AndLose this number.
“I have to clear my head,” Gillian said, gesturing toward the trail. “I don’t usually run in this kind of weather, but—”
“Did you text her as me?” Lenna interrupted.
The smile faded from Gillian’s lips. She looked caught, and then annoyed.
“Did you?” Lenna demanded. “Did you tell her to lose my number last night?”
“Lenna, she’s not good for you,” Gillian said. She sounded empty. “She makes you crazy. It kills me.”
Lenna felt sick. “So you did clone my phone? You’ve been reading all my texts—my emails?”
“She’s just going to hurt you again. I’m trying to keep that from happening.”
Lenna’s gaze searched Gillian’s face, which had gone blank. “Talking to her or not talking to her ismydecision,” she spluttered. “Not yours.”
“Yeah, but I’m your friendnow.”
“I get to choose who I am friends with. Not you.”
“Even after everything you’ve realized about her? After how shitty she was to you?”
Lenna shook her head. “Can you just undo that text? Explain that I wasn’t the one who sent it?”
Gillian stared down at the ground. “Why does she have such a hold over you? It’s like you’re obsessed.”
“She doesn’t have a hold on me.”
“You just can’t see it. She only cares about herself, she doesn’t care about you. Mark my words.”
Lenna backed up. Whowasthis person?
Then something else occurred to her. She leaned back, making a guess. “Did you even see her kissing Frederick that night, or did you just say it because you knew it would get me riled up about her?”
Gillian’s nose wrinkled. “She was the one who was weird to you about staying away from him, not me.”
“But maybe that’s why you don’t want me talking to her now. Because you know I’d ask her, and you know she’d say that never happened—that you made it all up.” And then Lenna kept going. “And did she actually say thatIdidn’t want to talk to you? Or did you make that up, too? Did you make a total case for getting her fired based on lies?”
Gillian blinked innocently. “You didn’thaveto send that email to get her fired. I didn’t twist your arm. You were ready to hate her. And I don’t blame you.” Then she put her hands on her hips. “Oh, and by the way, she knows what you did.”
Lenna’s stomach dropped. “What do you mean?”
“I thought she deserved to know. So I forwarded your email to her. It was easy to find your login credentials. You keep them in that little book in your purse.”
Lenna clapped her hand over her mouth. She couldn’t breathe.
“You want her back so badly, but you also did something terrible to her,” Gillian said in a sad voice. “You’re a bad friend, Lenna.”
Her bottom lip stuck out in an almost childish pout. This was a person, Lenna thought, that she’d never see again. She could already feel it in her bones, her fingers, her heart. Even if she had to quitCity Gossip.Even if she had to move away from LA entirely.
“Get her to unblock me,” Lenna said again.
“What’s the point? She won’t want to talk to you anyway.”
