CHAPTER 6
LOVE WAITSPresent Day
Yuri had spent most of the week debating—mainly with herself—whether she should go back to Calloway for the reunion or not. Her decisions ranged from definitely not going to probably not going. The maybe was garnered after SooYoung turned into a therapist one evening while they shared a bottle of wine in Yuri’s apartment above the office.
“Did you ever think the reason you haven’t settled down with anyone is because of the way things ended with Jessica?”
“That’s ridiculous.”
“Is it? You broke up with her, then slept with practically everyone in school, me included.”
Yuri felt her face blush. “Do you have to bring that up?”
“Well, it’s the truth.”
“You never told Sammy, right?”
“God, no. Husbands don’t need to know everything that went on in college.” She raised her glass in Yuri’s direction. “At least it reaffirmed to me that I was straight.”
“And it taught me not to sleep with friends.”
SooYoung laughed. “Which is why you had so few friends back then. You slept with everyone else.” She nodded when Yuri went to refill her glass. “Back to Jessica. You were best friends in high school, you end up having an affair, you go off to college together, then you broke up with her. And you’ve not seen her since.”
“So?”
“So in high school, how di
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