If He Had Been with Me

by Laura Nowlin

And then we decide that each of us must kiss all of the others in order to seal our eternal bonds of friendship. We giggle and cluster together. Did I kiss you? Have we kissed yet? Oh my God, I kissed Alex twice.

This is cute.

then I hear their voices again. Angie opens the door a crack. “Are you alone?” she asks. “Yeah,” I say. She opens the door enough for me to squeeze in. Brooke is sitting on the bathtub. Her eyes are red, and she

This is cute.