It’s been a few weeks since Amanda broke up with Ace, and Nancy doesn’t even know for sure if he considers his heartbreak to be “epic”. Nancy shoves her hands into her pockets and quickly averts her eyes, acting like the bit of fluff on her sleeve is suddenly the most fascinating thing she has ever seen.Īce says: “Happens to the best of us, I think.”Īt least his voice sounds even, almost indifferent.
“Epic heartbreaks, maybe?” Bess finishes, hopeful.Ī shadow flickers across Ace’s face, but quickly disappears. Like always, when she is ruffled and seeks comfort she involuntarily focuses on him.
Nancy’s unhelpful stomach flips and she tries hard to keep her face blank. “Come on! There has to be something: intrigues, pranks, the one crush that you never told about your feelings out of fear it might destroy your friendship.” (Plus, somewhere else there’s a different story written, one that centers around the fact that Ace was there, all the time, and that she did not even-)īess isn’t content with them being so lame and uncommunicative, instead, she tries to elicit a response by way of by firing a barrage of keywords at them: Back then when this used to be her world, when everything seemed simple and she knew exactly how the world worked and who she was.īack when a very different set of people kept her company. When she is successfully not over-analyzing, she tells herself that those conflicting feelings have nothing to do with the present and everything to do with the fact that she must have stood in this parking lot a million times before. Really, really weird as in: confusing and wistful and embarrassing and triumphant, like she has somehow both fallen short of fulfilling her potential and achieved more than she could have hoped for at the same time. Nancy assumes that they only differ in the realness of the indifference they express here, with his probably being real and hers absolutely being pretend.īecause the truth is, being back here does feel really, really weird and she’s trying hard to not over-analyze why that is. Both of them mutter something in the negative. “So, High-school,” Bess chirps, “must bring back so many memories for you two!”Īce just shrugs, Nancy follows suit.
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