My best friend, Jenna, hurried to catch up with me. “Honestly?” she said, looping her arm through mine. “That was sooo cool!”
I laughed, the tension melting from my shoulders for the first time that night.
Later, as I sat on my apartment balcony with a glass of cheap red wine, my phone buzzed. It was a text from Kayla. “You really embarrassed me,” it read.
I stared at it for a long moment before typing back: “I hope you learned something.”
No heart emojis. No smiley faces. Just the truth.
I didn’t care at that point. For once, she couldn’t talk her way out of it. And for me, that became the best birthday gift ever!
Source: amomama
