Haley Jakobson

A Novel

Old Enough

Emma Hak-Kovacs

…“bi” meaning “two.” I needed a shirt that read bi as in horny for gender expansiveness. Maybe I could get that custom-made on Etsy.

“It’s a lot to promise, you know? That you’re gonna be in the same friendship for your whole life.” 

“We do that romantically, though,” Candace said. “I mean, that’s the basic idea, if you believe in marriage and stuff.”

 “Yeah, but that feels different,” Vera argued. “You go into a romantic relationship knowing it can completely combust and leave you wrecked. You basically sign up for that. I feel like friends don’t talk about that happening.”

I loved nights like this, where one fun thing led into another and it felt like the universe was conspiring to show you a good time, to show you that you were worth having a good time.

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