Chapter 198 On The Outside, Looking In

• I liked the silence until I abruptly didn’t, and the loneliness took hold. Then, as I always do when I feel alone, I called my friends.
• “Why don’t we try to recreate a girls’ night?” Maria said through the phone, excitement in her voice. “We can get on one of those video chats and talk and drink our wine.”
• That sounded great to me. It would be the closest thing I could get to actually being in the same room as my friends. ]