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Lulu dragged along beside me as we hopped in the elevator and headed to her room on the twelfth floor I was on the fifteenth in the honeymoon suite It sucked ere so far apart, but the hotel had had li we’d made her reservations at the last minute She’d been the one that had insisted on separate rooet lucky And she had plenty ofin the country ainst the wall of the elevator, obviously exhausted as she gazed at her phone, checking social media Her mouth was uncharacteristically turned down She suddenly straightened "What the heck?"

"What?" I cranedat, but she swiped the photo away on Instagra in my stomach

"Shit Yes"

"Is he with someone?"

She shook her head "I don’t know You kno hard it is to interpret social media It’s fake and filtered You can’t believe half of it"

I scowled "Show hing, she scooted over next to me and swiped her phone back to the photo It was Hartford at Cadillac’s, one of the local college bars at Whithtly smile was a perky blonde with super white teeth

"That’s Katrina Somebody She’s inon the picture, taking in every single pixel, looking for large pores or a flaw on her perfect face

Was she prettier than me? Smarter? Funnier?

Bottles of beer littered the table and several people photo-boether?

I searched Hartford’s s for a clue His sandy-blond hair had recently been tri a plaid button-down shirt I’d never seen before, he radiated confidence; no sign of the conflicted guy who’d told me he needed to think about us before he ed "He captioned it studybuddy goodti how Katrina’s hand curled around his arm, how his head tilted in her direction

I looked at the date of the posting Our wedding night

E ainst the cold wall of the elevator

It’s okay It’s okay It’s just the guy you spent two and a half years on out with someone else

I wanted to throw up

"Remi, I’m sorry," Lulu said, a pained expression on her face "I’ht, aren’t I?"