We are actually playing just outside of LA.
Next time we are in town, you should bring some of your friends to our show.
My fingers stilled over the keyboard. He wanted to meet my friends? He was that invested in our friendship? It stirred something within me, but I pushed it down.
I would, but they are all in North Carolina.
Except the one in CA…
And the one he’d never get to meet…
Really?
Yeah, that’s where I’m from.
But you and your sister live in Charleston together?
It’s a long story.
Hit me with it.
Jade and I aren’t blood sisters and technically no longer sisters since her mom and my dad are no longer together.
But my dad moved to SC with Jade’s mom and after they divorced, my dad moved to Greenville, while Jade and her mom stayed in Charleston.
Jade and I had become really close, so of course we kept in touch.
But my mom is still in NC.
And you’re in Charleston now because…
Lol.
After I graduated college, my boyfriend convinced me to move with him to Charleston because he’s from here.
Ah. The boyfriend.
Yeah. The boyfriend.
I let my gaze travel to the closed door of our bedroom. A piece of wood that separated Elijah and me physically, but I was discovering that we weren’t as emotionally connected to each other as we used to be. The short period of normalcy we’d experienced recently wouldn’t change that.
I rearranged my pillows against my headboard before pulling back the comforter and sliding in, taking a moment to gather my thoughts. I wanted to ask Damien a question, but I wasn’t sure how to put the words together.
If the friend of your girlfriend died, would you stop her from traveling home for the funeral?
I don’t have a girlfriend.
I stared at the words.
We never discussed that topic and never needed to, sincewe were just friends. And I’d never asked outright either, feigning indifference.
I couldn’t explain how those words bloomed in my chest.
Okay, then your fiancé?
None of those either.
Wife?
