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ME
My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail.
JAMIE
Shit. You’re on the RSVP list.
My phone vibrates from an incoming call.
“Hey, Jamie.”
“Fuck them!”
My eyes go wide as saucers.
“You didn’t know about this?”
“I mean, I’ve been to them in the past, but I thought they wouldn’t host one this year after everything.”
“Those assholes.” She seethes through the phone.
“It’s okay.”
“No, it’s not okay! They did this on purpose to embarrass you.”
“Only if I let them.”
Her heels click against the floor from her pacing. “You’re not thinking of going, are you?”
I stay quiet.
“Dahlia, you can’t be serious. You’ve come so far since the first time we met. No need to threaten all that progress.”
When I first met Jamie, I had a breakdown in her office after telling her the story of how my previous agent dropped me as a client. At the time, I was depressed without knowing it, and my lack of control over my emotions was at its all-time low.
But look at you now.
“I want to show them they didn’t break me.” They might have come close, but I’m still here, fighting for myself and the future I deserve.
“Do you want me to be your plus-one?”
I consider it for a moment before thinking better of it. “Actually, I already have a date.”
“Is he hot?”
“Absolutely,” I say before laughing.
“Smart?”
My nose wrinkles. “Annoyingly so.”
“Please tell me he’s rich.”
“He makes Oliver’s inheritance seem like play money.”
Jamie whistles. “Good for you. He sounds like a keeper.”
I know, and it’s time I told him so.
