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I overreacted

It’s ok Everybody has an off night

Why is it that when other people tell you things you already know, it’s soothing?

Why is it that when West tells me I’m okay, I believe him? Not that he can make me okay, but just to have that touchstone

I want to tell hiet it happened even ot off A pause That sounded dirty

I so back in there K said you’re helping him pull chicks Another pause But they’re all dykes

Hoirls call themselves that

They call themselves women, I type, but that’s not what I meant to say

Woive it a third shot W-o- autocrochet

There’s a pause, and then West writes, Autocrochet? I’

I blink at the screen Oh Yeah, it seems I typed that Glad I can aers three tries to er pause

Need to sleep

I’ht during the week He told ht

Another pause, and I’ to think we’re done, that I should leave the bathrooo to bed, when another bubble pops up Caroline?

Yeah?

Tuesday is cookie day

Tuesday, back at the bakery I don’t want to wait that long to see hiht See you then

By the way

Nothing for several seconds

You look fucking hot

No tooth gap in sight

Those words--what they do to ht be ap between my front teeth

I take a screenshot and put the phone away

Still s to the thu bass beat from down the hall My toeswith their own tiny acknowledgment

It’s the second tiet isher way towarddown the hall, and Quinn is watching her like a hawk, ht hit the deck

The sad thing is, Bridget only had two beers She has no alcohol tolerance whatsoever

"Caroline!" she shouts

"Bridget!" I shout back

"I saw Nate"

"So did I"

"And I kicked Krish in the nuts for taking your picture I mean, not really, but metaphorically I did"

"She chewed him out like you wouldn’t believe," Quinn says

"Did Nate o hoet you so that’s on, and I don’t want to go back to the rooet peers atblearily

"Kind of I mean, mostly I want to kick Nate in the nuts Or smash his perfect nose in"

"Your boy already did that," Bridget says I widen nal for oh ainst all hope that Quinn didn’t hear or won’t understand

"Your boy?" Quinn asks

She’s got one eyebrow up That eyebros everything

"Bridget is a little drunk," I say apologetically "And we have this kind of running joke about West--"