Not So Nice Guy

by R.S. Grey

I’m a guy who’s in love with his best friend, a woman who seems to eat her cake but also keep it in a hermetically sealed cryopreservation tank for all eternity.

“Something old, borrowed, and blue.” He offers it to me. “Best I could do on short notice.”

The Freshman Four stand scowling in a corner. When I glance over, Gretchen slices a finger across her neck menacingly and Bianca elbows her in the ribs. “Jesus, we aren’t going to cut her throat, Gretchen!” “Oh, that’s what that means? I never knew! Sorry Sam!”