. make believe

[aisha van buren]

aisha Same old. I know, I'm making it my homepage. Just stop, it's unhealthy. Go cold turkey. There are so many other men in the sea... though he was so nice, and handsome, and he's so successful. You really blew that one.

[cora wolfe]

CORA Sounds lovely. I'M AWARE. He gets the last laugh every time he sends me fan gear. I bet girls wear his jersey when they fuck. UGH.

[aisha van buren]

aisha I'm sick of him. Haven't seen him for weeks and don't really want to. Delete his number. Send it to me, delete the text, delete it from every single place you could potentially find it on your phone. I'll let you have it if you ever need it for a sufficiently non-pathetic reason.

[cora wolfe]

CORA Well, you and I haven't been single together in a long time. Pandemic be damned? Great idea, happy to do that, but massive flaw. I have it memorized.

[aisha van buren]

aisha Tempting. What if we like the same guy? Our friendship won't survive a repeat of the '99 Rex Humphries incident. You have a disease.

[cora wolfe]

CORA I think our taste's varied a bit since then, but we can flip a coin for him. Btw, Rex def gave me the heart lollipop and I will fight that to my grave. I was dedicated! I have to stop though, you're right. I ended it.

[aisha van buren]

aisha If he did it was to make me jealous, he was smart like that. Think he's a lawyer now. Ended your own stalking?

[cora wolfe]

CORA Whatever. Is he single? Nah, the relationship. Stalking's second nature at this point, I should moonlight as a PI.

[aisha van buren]

aisha Engaged. Fair game as far as I'm concerned. I know you did, that makes this all the worse. Don't give him the satisfaction of thinking you regret it.

[cora wolfe]

CORA Isn't legal till it's legal. She kind of looks like you, you could still be his dream girl? I feel like at this point he's probably aware! It's fine though, it drops off when I date someone else. We can wing woman each other.

[aisha van buren]

aisha She looks like both of us, but I bet when I started dating Elliot he thought about me more. Because people get weird when you're in the public eye. Take this girl I know, she's so beautiful and she has it all going for her. She broke up with her lame college boyfriend, now he's gone and gotten famous playing a stupid sport no one should care about, so she's become super needy and thinks about him all the time, even calls him though he screens it every time. Sad. Let me break up with Joe first.

[cora wolfe]

CORA Gee, thanks for the slap in the face. For the record though, I'm proud that he took what I said to him and proved me wrong. Are you really going to?

[aisha van buren]

aisha I wish he hadn't, we wouldn't have to have this conversation. He's not one of your projects! No, annoyingly I still love him.

[cora wolfe]

CORA It's fine that he did, he was a good person. Do you think about Elliot, ever? You seem so down when you talk about him lately, though.

[aisha van buren]

aisha Haha no. He stopped texting me as soon as he got a girlfriend, started texting me again a couple months ago... two days later their break up is in the press. He's an embarrassment. I don't think he really likes me.