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This is so like her

“Gwen!” She stood and waved from the table filled with other women covered in pearls and diamonds on their wrists, necks, and ears

I al off the top of my ear before I moved forward

At the table, she pulledboth of my cheeks “Gwe

n, you look so artistic! Guys, this is my friend, Guinevere Poe, she’s a famous painter”

Stevie, what happened to you? I s to show off for before sitting down

“Guinevere Poe?” A wo, styled brown hair raised a cosmopolitan to her pink lips “I’ve heard of you Stephanie, I didn’t know you were so big into the art scene”

“Oh gosh, I used to love painting, it’s such a nice hobby” She laughed loudly, and with such fakeness

I winced Nice hobby?

Stevie Spencer—or Stephanie as she seeo by now—had come with me from our small town of Cypress, Alaska, to study art at NYU She, however, had dropped out during her third year afterRichie Rich We had gotten into a big fight about it, too I thought she had lost her mind; part ofshe'd worked so hard for, just for a guy who toabout her? He looked like such a tool, and I told her so… We didn’t talk to each other for a year after that Only after I apologized did we try to rebuild our friendship, but it was ht it would be She was a whole different person

Her red hair had always been tied into a braid so she could keep it out of paint We never spent money on our nails, or even put that much effort intowith that, but because it got in the way of our work, and as everything…or it had been Now her hair was down and fluffed up, and she wore thick, heavywith a se That's ere all there: for her bridal shower

“Now that we are all here” The saive a toast to the newest member of the Van Allan family To you, Stephanie, lad you and I are the best of friends, you truly are the sweetest”

“Here, here” We all raised our glasses

“A, thanks you guys! And thank you so ” Stevie laughed, giving everyone ss

“Of course! Who else would do it?”