Summer on the Bluffs by Sunny Hostin

Author:Sunny Hostin [Hostin, Sunny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2021-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

About Those Schuyler Sisters

After the second day of the conference wrapped up, Billie walked across Central Park to Perry’s apartment. It took a little more than an hour, but she listened to a podcast on the way. It was the third season and it was about the music and rivalry of Biggie and Tupac. She was riveted. It was sunset when she showed up at Perry’s apartment on the Upper West Side. The view was gorgeous and the apartment looked like the movie set of the rom-coms she couldn’t get enough of, hetero-normative story lines be damned.

When she arrived at her godsister’s apartment, Perry was looking fierce in a charcoal-gray Rachel Comey jumpsuit and some devastatingly intricate high heels. Billie was feeling cute and sporty in a button-down shirt and silk crepe culottes. Perry poured them both a glass of rosé and they sat at the counter in her eat-in kitchen, looking glamorous and feeling like sisters.

Billie knew that Perry and Damon were on the outs, although Ama seemed to think it was merely a marital blip. What she didn’t expect was what came next.

Perry said, “So this is the thing. I want you to invite a guy up to Ama’s for Fourth of July weekend and pretend he’s your friend. You know, someone you met in the sustainability industry or something. His name is Nikesh and he is someone I like a lot. The whole thing with Damon is so screwed up. I just . . . I just need this.”

This was a ridiculous plan, Billie thought. But she told herself she needed to be there for Perry. Billie didn’t believe much in the all-knowing power of the universe, but Dulce did and it was definitely rubbing off.

Billie took a sip of her rosé and looked her godsister squarely in the eye. “You know this is a terrible, very bad, no bueno, plan, don’t you?”

Perry sighed. “I know. Do it for me. Think about Hamilton and all that Angelica did for her little sister Eliza.”

Billie shook her head. “That was a totally effed up situation. In the end, Hamilton hurt Eliza—bad.”

Perry got up and topped their glasses off. “This will go better, I promise.” Then she raised her glass and said, “To love. And to figuring it out.”

Billie clinked glasses with her godsister and hoped like hell that Perry was right.

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