Chapter Seven
Emily is eager to head downtown. First, however, we stop for coffee. I get a water, already amped up on caffeine and the fact I have to try to talk my best friend out of getting married. Emily orders an extra strong coffee and while we wait, I glance at her.
She looks happy. Of course she does. She wants to marry Adam. I want to be happy for her as well. But the nagging feeling that she is making a mistake hounds me. Emily hasn’t been able to settle on anything that she wants to do with her life. Why, out of everything to settle on she has decided to settle on Adam, confounds me. I feel as if she is slipping through my fingers. Part of me is blaming myself.
With everything going on in my life, maybe I haven’t been as good a friend to her as I should have. I know she loves
