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“Ugh. I just got a Facebook message from Alex,” Jen said, still looking at her phone.
“What does it say?”
“She wants to know when we can hang out again.”
Marissa wrinkled her nose. “Are we going to hang out with her again?”
Jen could hear Marissa’s preference in her voice. “I don’t really want to.”
“Neither do I. Not after she called you ugly.”
“I know. Who does that? And after everything we did for her!”
Marissa shook her head back and forth as she looked back at her own phone. “I don’t know. And she seemed so nice at first.”
“I know! She seemed really cool. I guess it just goes to show you never know what some people are really like. Even after you’ve traveled with them for a week. That’s normally my cutoff for knowing what someone is like. When you travel with them, you get to know all sorts of things about them that you would never get to see otherwise.”
“I know, right? But she was great on the trip. Well, there was that one day she got kind of hangry, but that was it.”
Jen laughed. “I’d actually forgotten about that. She was so cranky!”
Marissa laughed, too. Then she said, “So are you going to reply to her message?”
“I haven’t decided yet. On the one hand, I don’t really want to. On the other hand, I’ll feel like kind of a bitch if I don’t reply at all. Maybe I’ll just send her a super non-committal message agreeing it’s been a while, but not giving her a time or place to meet up. If she tries to get something more specific out of me, then I’ll ignore her.”
“Are you going to unfriend her?”
“Probably not. Have you unfriended her yet?”
“No. Mostly because I’m just too lazy, but also because I’m kind of hoping I’ll get to see what happens when she completely self destructs from being such a bitch to people who thought she was their friend.”
Jen snorted. “You are so right. Why should I feel bad about not hanging out with someone who treated me like that? This totally serves her right. In fact, I can’t believe she even had the nerve to message me about hanging out. Who does she think she is?”
“I don’t know, but you’ve got a point. It definitely served her right. If we just ignore her, it will totally teach her a much-needed lesson about how she should treat people who have been so nice to her.”
“I know, right?”
To be continued…
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