Chapter 6“Hello?”
My eyes flew open and I smiled.
“Uh, yeah... is this Gayle?”
“Speaking.”
“Hi, this is, uh, Jessica... Jess... I dunno if you remem-”
“Oh, yeah,” she chuckled, cutting me off. “Right. Yeah, I remember. Of course. Jess, sure. How could I forget? So did you get the, uh... note I gave to Rachel? I didn’t know, if you...”
“Yeah. Uh huh. Yep. I got it,” I replied happily, holding up the slip of paper to no one in particular.
I felt nervous. My toes and fingers felt numb and my throat was dry.
“Oh, ok. Great,” she replied. “So, um, it’s just a little dinner party. Nothing fancy. I was just thinking, uh, hey, why not send you an invite, too, ya know?”
I was staring down at the note in my hand, staring at the smiley face she’d drawn, which caused me to smile in kind.
“Ye
