Tales Of Friends Sucking Up And Reminding You How Much You Can't Fake
Day 2 of The Andie Chronicles
I had never seen my spin class so packed as this morning.
GG was there and profusely apologised for forgetting my birthday. Another best friend who conveniently forgot.
I tried to hold my tongue as we mounted our bikes, waiting for the instructor to arrive, but I spent the entire night alone and couldn’t hold in my misery any longer.
“You’re not the only one who forgot. James spent the entire day hungover. Sophia message me at 3 this morning when it dawned on her she forgot. And I didn’t hear anything from Douglas. Taylor messaged me, but not him.”
I couldn’t believe out of GG, her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s brother, my man, it was the brother who remembered.
“If this isn’t a message from the universe that I’m completely unloved, I don’t know what is.”
GG sighed at me. You could tell from the look on her face she wasn’t enjoying my self-pity.
What did she expect me to do in the situation?
Pretend like it didn’t break my heart completely in two when everyone forgot about me?
I can’t fake that heartbreak.
I can’t pretend like I’m not hurting that badly. It was one of those rare times in life I believed I deserved to look and feel hurt.
“How can I make it up to you?”
I didn’t have an answer for her. She couldn’t go back in time. And realistically that would be the only way for me to feel like people cared.
“Sorry babe, but this is one of those times I can’t give you that answer.”
After class finished, we showered and I tried to leave without saying goodbye.
Normally we had a coffee and I would catch her up on the business. It was her investment, as well as Sophia’s. James and I are waiting for the day she quits working at the bank and comes to us full-time.
But today, I didn’t feel like talking.
She found me walking out the front and grabbed my arm.
“Come on, don’t do this. Let’s go out later this week. We will celebrate.”
She held my arm tighter before pulling me into a bear hug.
“Please let me do this for you.”
I didn’t say anything. I grunted and then left, putting my AirPods in my ears so I couldn’t hear her call out again. I wasn’t in the mood to fake excitement about her re-do birthday attempts.
We’re both grown-ass adults, with zero excuses for forgetting the basics of relationships. You know; don’t be a dick.
Sure, I was being a dick by walking off. But sometimes people don’t deserve your patience, forgiveness, your kindness.
This one was one of those moments. I walked slowly home. I wasn’t in a rush to get there and find James repeating GG’s forgiveness performance.
Once felt like enough.
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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