U UP? by Catie Disabato

Author:Catie Disabato [Disabato, Catie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2021-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Georgie

Friday 11:59 PM

Where are you?

Lydia

Have you eaten?

Where are you?

BEA SHOWED UP

Are you okay with that or did you flee?

i left before Bea showed

went home with Clara

don’t tell

Lydia was giving, caring, loyal, but a gossip. If she was still at the party, and she probably was, then Bea would find out I went home with Clara before she went to bed. If Bea had gone home already, she’d find out from someone at brunch the next morning; her hair would be frizzy, up in a big bun, her eyes would be squinted even behind her big Crap sunglasses. She’d pretend in front of other people not to care, but I’d wake up with a nasty text. I would be happy, waiting for her response.

I opened Instagram and waited for a second while it loaded; even though I hadn’t posted last night, I saw I had a hearty crop of notifications since the last time I opened the app, almost three hundred red hearts according to the small red bubble that popped up at the bottom of my screen. Find out who’s liked you, figure out why. It wasn’t a mystery that was hard to solve; I didn’t even have to tap my notifications button, the culprit was at the top of the screen: a new post from Ezra.

It was a picture I recognized and remembered, Ezra and Miggy and me, in a hot tub at a Palm Springs Airbnb rental, taken on a trip three years ago, the sun setting pink, and behind us the big mountains, the bigger sky. Ezra’s caption said, “We’re missing our boy tonight.” With me in that picture, did that “we” include me?

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