Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

Author:Monica Heisey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2023-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

Sharing any of this out loud seemed like it would be the start of a Thing, and I didn’t want to subject Merris to any more of those, so I said, “You know what, it’s stupid,” and told her I was feeling tired. Although we both knew I was lying, she politely got up to leave. To my dismay, Lydia followed.

I turned off the lights and lay on my mattress in the dark. Last New Year’s Eve Jon and I had a massive fight, the cause of which I could not remember. It was a bad one, both of us retreating behind our favorite defense mechanisms: stony silence punctuated by a bitchy comment for the lady, furious yelling with a side of stomping around for monsieur. Not a cherished memory, exactly, but I wasn’t sure lying here alone having alienated a septuagenarian with my refusal to seek counseling was a better alternative. I looked over my email to Jon, added a few lines about forgiving him for whatever had made us so furious with each other on January 1, 2018, and sent it. When my phone buzzed minutes later, I scrambled over to it, but it was just someone I’d been on a few dates with asking if I was “out.”

As the night grew later, these kinds of texts rolled in from others, wishing me a Happy New Year and subtly or not subtly probing about my whereabouts—it was one thirty, any party prospects had long since been claimed. People were going through their mental Rolodexes, hoping not to greet the first morning of the new year alone. I ignored them, sent the group chat a picture of myself making a kissy face at two a.m., then at two thirty received these, from Amy:

U up?

hahaHA Saw the bread you posted on instagram. . . . . vERY sad

@party near ur house, COME!!! everyone sooooo chiLL :P

k random meant 2 say :) not :P

;)))))

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