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“Your theatre background’s showing Besides, Sophie’s dating my brother We’re supposed to play nice” I read the email a little more critically Was “I can’t wait to hear what all of you have been up to” actually passive-aggressive, or could Sophie genuinely be interested in the lives of other people? “Besides, I don’t have anything I could use to show anyone up”

Eva shot o in with that kind of attitude”

I s the rooestured widely at the kitchenette that bled into the tiny living room, and the two box-size bedrooms off it “I’ll tell everyone about our stellar aparth maybe I’ll bu internship—I think I’ll pretend it’s a salaried job” Come to think about it, this reunion seeainst the counter in defeat “Oh, God I haven’t done anything I’ to show up and be a failure”

“‘Oh, woe is me,’” Eva said from back at the mirror “‘To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!’”

That was the proble with a former theatre major Sometimes she rebuked me with Shakespeare

“You could bring John with you”

I sed too ri in my stomach “Eva”

“What?” She thrust her glass out behind her and I topped it off “He’s gorgeous And you said he asked you out again”

“There are so estion” Apart frouy, rather than my own success, John and I hadn’t exactly dated I , but it turned out I was just the third wheel in his open relationship

“Come on Maybe it was total serendipity that you ran into hiot that reunion invite”

I flopped back down on the sofa, the old cushions sagging beneath lass “Orme I’ve had too ht”

“Unacceptable” She blurred a thick line of grey above her lashes “You need to be cheered up”

The encounter this afternoon hadn’t been depressing, just e at his ad agency, and I’d been char, staid Rachael Hamilton This was New York! The happiest place on earth! Where dreams came true!