Tales Of Friends Getting Their Life Together, And Partners Doing The Opposite
Day 11 of The Andie Chronicles
GG and Sophia both arrived at six on the nose.
It was unlike them to be there on time, but they told me they were desperate to leave work. It had been one of those days.
I didn’t complain.
Our Thursday meetings about Highway, our unisex clothing line, were the best part of my week. James and I got the opportunity to fill in our investors, our business partners, and our best friends on what we’ve been doing. And today we had a big announcement.
Earlier in the week we took samples from our favourite supplier over to their houses to get their thoughts.
They instantly loved them.
But that was half the battle. We needed to convince the supplier to take us on as clients, approving our designs and guaranteeing they can bring our creations to life.
It was a waiting game, one James and I did amongst the chaos of my personal life. But thankfully, with the news we received today, something else overshadowed Douglas’ crappy behaviour.
And the fact I’m pretty sure we’d broken up, even though we hadn’t had the “talk”.
Everyone took their seats around the dining table come office desk whilst I seized the champagne from the fridge.
“What’s all this for?” Sophia asked, happily taking a glass and drinking from it before anyone else. “Verve, my favourite.”
“This is a special occasion,” James said, raising his glass. “We got the supplier!”
We all cheered and clinked our glasses together and hollered loudly. You could feel everything change at that moment. We would remember this occasion for the rest of our lives.
It was when we would go from having an idea, chasing an idea to making it come to life. Sure, it wasn’t our first dollar in the bank. That would come, though.
We all believed it now.
“So how long until they can have the first samples of our designs ready?” GG was all about business, and I loved her for it.
“Four weeks,” I said. “It’s not as long as I thought but they stressed it’s a process and there would be a lot of back and forth to get things right.”
“And what about money? How much do they need up front?” I looked across at James who was holding the notebook from earlier, the one where we tried to do all the math on how much this would cost.
“We don’t have the final numbers yet. I don’t want to tell you and be wrong. At the moment, though, we need to give two grand for the samples. But that will get taken off the first order if we go ahead.”
Sophia finished her champagne.
“Send me the invoice and I will pay it in the morning. I don’t want four weeks to turn into six or eight weeks because of money.”
I watched my friends all night act with such professionalism and enthusiasm. They just got on with it; no fuss, no arguments, no bull shit. Unlike my love life.
Why couldn’t Douglas be like them?
Why couldn’t we talk about our relationship like this? To the point, with no fuss or cryptic silence. Why did it have to be so hard?
You’re reading The Andie Chronicles, the 2023 romance-fiction series from the 1 Lovelock Drive (1LD) universe.
By the way, this all started when Andie turned thirty-five, and her then-boyfriend didn’t call her.
Or the day after that.
Or the day after that, too.
Everything started to unravel when her BFFs got into bed with her ex, too… ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
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