All the Right Notes

by Dominic Lim

She’s squeezed herself into a dress that screams I bought this at full price!, her makeup is layered on so thick it’s impossible to tell what her actual face looks like,

misogyny is not the vibe. You can say someone gives off asshole vibes w/o insulting the way they dress

Every time we do trivia night at Phoenix Bar, we slay the competition in that category.

This feels like it’s trying too hard

what in gods name did we need 4 PARAGRAPHS of description of this restaurant for

When we haven’t talked to each other for twenty years?”

Quito reads very young in this - this man is almost 40

I wonder if she knows that her oversize polka-dot dress does absolutely nothing for her, hiding her body instead of showing how beautiful she really is.

IT IS WEIRD FOR AN ALMOST 40 YEAR OLD MAN TO BE COMMENTING LN THE CLOTHES OF A 17 YEAR OLD (GENEROUS) GIRL also why only the fashion of girls???

“You were exaggerating, anak. I knew you’d do a good job.”

honestly this man is really annoying at this point. It’s not charming it’s just not caring what your kid has to say and thinking you know better.

An hour and forty-five minutes before my fate as a composition major at Oberlin would be decided.

are we ever gonna talk about how Emmett literally ruined Quitos ability to get a degree??? like I’d quite literally never forgive the man. they’re supposed to be close friends!!!!

And I deserved all of it.

ummm… what?? this was a wasted college hookup? like they were both wasted? I don’t understand

I was completely sober when we walked back to your dorm.”

that was deeply deeply unfair to Quito

deserved not ever having another good song in me again for what I did to you.”

that’s wildly overdramatic

He kisses me. Our reprise is even better than the first time.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN EMMETT IS NOT GOING TO APOLOGIZE