Val, go put your horny self in time out.
Jessa
Does he have a brother?
Asking for a friend.
Aimee
Younger sister.
Have Ell’s brother set you up with one of his friends.
Isabella
I also have two hot brothers
Val
Jessa I mean this in the nicest way, but back off my twins
Eloise
LOL
Isabella
VALERIE
Val
[road runner gif]
Isabella
Guys brb, I have to go throttle our favorite author.
I put my phone down and shifted on the couch, turning to face my bestie more fully. I opened my mouth to give her crap for posting in the chat, but then her phone lit up. I glanced at mine, so whatever she was seeing, it wasn’t in the chat. But whatever it was had her snatching her phone and hastily unlocking it.
“What is it?” I asked, my voice still only slightly stuffy from all the crying, there was also a slight pressure headache blooming, but I tried to ignore it.
I leaned in and looked at her screen, and it was an article about the US Olympic Figure Skating Team. They’d performed well in the past games, Nicola and Louis placing third in pairs, coming home Olympians. Brittney unfortunately hadn’t placed and maybe it made me a terrible person, but that fact filled me with a fair bit of glee.
Eloise sucked in a sharp breath, and I turned to watch her press the volume button a couple of times and then Brittney’s annoying voice filled the space around us. She looked stunning, not surprising and she was beaming at the reporter interviewing her.
“It has been a long time coming, a dream for all of us on Team U.S. I couldn’t be more thrilled or proud of my little skating family.”
“I know you personally had been working towards skating on Olympic ice for years — it’s been a pretty bumpy road. You mustbe pretty proud of your teammates for bringing home a Gold for the U.S.A. How are you planning to prepare for the next games—assuming another Olympics is still a goal?”
The smile Brittney had plastered on her face faltered a bit before she turned it back up. But then it was like she thought better of it, and the smile dropped away completely and she was suddenly the picture of sadness.
“Oh for sure! I’m beyond thrilled for Nicola and Louis. I know how hard they worked and they deserved every point they fought for. They deserved to bring home the gold medal! I have regrets, I know I didn’t perform as well as I anticipated, but it was my first Olympics and I know I have so many more in me! If you’d asked me a year ago, I would have told you that I didn’t know what the future held for the U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team, but I do know that in the face of adversity, we stride forward, we rise above.”
“And you were friends with Aimee and Asher?” The reporter asked.
“Of course! You can’t not be friends with people you share that much ice time with. We supported each other unconditionally. Though Aimee and I weren’t as close, Asher and I were really good friends,” Brittney said.
I gagged and scowled. “We were not fucking friends. And I still don’t know what Asher saw in her.”
