Friendship Fails of Emma Nash. Chloe Seager

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      Steph’s coming over tomorrow, thank God. I can stop thinking about myself for a bit and just listen to her talk.

Tuesday, 4 November

       posted by EditingEmma 16.08

       Steph’s Growing Up

      Steph just left. I feel a bit emotional.

      ‘So how did it go with Gracie??’ I started, as she settled down on my bed. Given that Andy is not just any first-proper-boyfriend, he’s also our friend Gracie’s brother, it makes the whole thing slightly more complicated.

      ‘It was actually really nice,’ said Steph.

      I nearly fell off the bed in shock. ‘Really nice?’ I repeated. ‘With Gracie?’

       Gracie, My Ex-Frenemy

      In amongst a lot of other antics last term, another massive thing to happen was my fight with Gracie. She did something which hurt at the time (i.e. posted my secret blog online and kind of ruined me getting back together with Leon…) but actually, her doing that made me realize just how not worth it Leon was and also that in focusing so much on my terrible love life, I’d failed to notice how terrible our friendship had become. We’re on much better terms now. The other day we all went out together and we didn’t snipe at each other once. (Apart from when she said mozzarella is the best kind of cheese, which is clearly wrong.)

      Still, I must admit I’m surprised by her being OK with this. I wasn’t expecting Steph to make it out alive. But apparently, after Steph admitted that she really likes Andy, but said it didn’t have to go any further if Gracie had an issue with it, Gracie apologized to Steph for making her feel like she couldn’t say anything about it!

      ‘Sacre bleu!’ I said.‘Really?! That’s…so…unexpectedly simple.’

      ‘Yep…it was…’

      ‘Was?’

      Steph went silent and buried her head in her hands. Then started rocking backwards and forwards on my bed. ‘Oh Emma. Then I RUINED it.’

      ‘What?! How? What did you do?!’

      Steph took a breath and looked up. ‘So after we chatted, we hung out for a bit, and it was all really nice…’

      ‘Yes…?’

      ‘Then Gracie wanted to do some work and I said, cool, I’ll go. But then Andy messaged me to see what I was up to.’

      ‘Right…?’

      ‘So I said, well actually, I’m in the room next door. And he said…come see me. But by the time we’d agreed this, Gracie was already taking me downstairs to say goodbye and she’d been so nice about the whole thing and I didn’t want to make her feel awkward…so…’

      ‘So?’

      ‘So, um, I just sort of…panicked and left. And, um, walked down the street.’

      I started laughing.

      ‘And then Andy was all, where are you? And I turned around and walked back up the street.’

      I laughed harder.

      ‘And rang the doorbell. I thought Andy would answer, but, um…’

      ‘Oh NO.’

      ‘Yep. Gracie answered. She looked so puzzled. She asked me if I’d left something.’

      ‘Oh, Steph.’

      ‘I knowwwww I knowwwww. It would have been so much better to just tell her the fist time. And I said, um, hi Gracie, I’m here to see Andy. Oh God, you should have seen her face.’

      I wiped a tear from my eye. ‘Oh, Steph. You idiot.’

      ‘I know I know I knowww.’

      ‘I thought you were so much cooler than that.’

      ‘So did I.’

      After that, Steph marched into Andy’s room, told him she liked him and asked him out. He admitted that since the accidental kiss at Gracie’s birthday party she’s all he’s been thinking about, and then they kissed again. Non-accidentally.

      1.) I still cannot believe Gracie is all right with this. It’s a miracle. I’m sort of expecting it to be a big ruse and tomorrow Steph will wake up with meat in her bed spelling ‘Judas’.

      2.) I can’t believe Steph just asked Andy out. Just like that. How does a person develop that sort of confidence? I’m still developing the confidence to believe I might one day send a wink emoji in a ‘flirty manner’.

      After a few hours Steph got up to leave.

      ‘Andy’s coming over to listen to some music, wanna join?’

      I smiled.‘Oh, no, I’ll leave you to it,’ I said.‘Lots of pictures to edit and all that.’

      Steph rolled her eyes. (She will never understand the work it takes to get lighting, filtering and captioning just right.)

      I would have liked to go with her. But I got Steph all day. I know I should leave them alone for a bit, and go along next time.

       posted by EditingEmma 18.31

       I Will Never Be Insta-Famous

      After Steph left, I tried to rally and focus a bit on my fashion blog/social media. Unfortunately, much like Steph, my mother does not seem to understand the work it takes to achieve quality posts either.

      I came into my room and she had put laundry everywhere.

      ‘Mum!’ I called out. ‘Mum!’

      ‘What?’ She huffed into the room.

      ‘What is this?’ I asked, pointing at the laundry rack.

      ‘Those are your ridiculous sloth slippers, which you insist on keeping.’

      ‘No, not the sloth slippers. Which, by the way, are not ridiculous. Why are they drying in here?’

      Mum blinked. ‘What do you want me to do with them?’

      ‘I don’t know. Put them in your room.’

      ‘My room has my laundry in it.’

      I clenched my teeth. ‘Well, I’m afraid I don’t have space for this in here. It’s ruining my canvas.’

      ‘Your canvas?’

      ‘Yes.’ СКАЧАТЬ