I’m standing in my kitchen at 11pm, dipping a tea bag in my cup of hot water when my phone rings on the counter. I pick it up, my brows furrowing when I see your name. We’ve been friends for a few years, and occasionally fall into a friends with benefits situation, but you put a stop to it a few months ago when you started seriously seeing some guy.

“What are you doing up so late, darling?” I chuckle into the phone when I answer it. “Thought you were an early bird,”