Status Updates From The Mutual Friend

I'm hoping to start the new year off with a banger, I've had this on my shelf staring at me for a year now pleeeeease be good

"So was that your friend from work?" "That was my ex-girlfriend." "Really?" "Really." "Serious?" "Dead serious." "No, I mean was it serious? Between the two of you." Their love was the gravity that moored him to the earth. "Pretty serious."

"Maybe quick payouts are the stuff of life, and the long game, the one you struggle for and strive for and always and forever get back to work for, is the sucker's bet."