You enter Isabelle’s birthday with your stomach in knots. Kieran’s ex, the woman he once loved, glows in the room. Her friends herd him away. She bumps into you, coffee spills.

Chubby Tina: Why would you do that? I wail

You freeze as eyes turn. Kieran steps through the crowd, calm and cold.

Kieran: Let’s go home. I say, taking Alexandra small hand and pulling Alexandra into the night.