Sei jumped up, ran through the bedroom door, and shut it behind her. Giving her eyes a moment to adjust to the dim light, she realized that Lucy was standing by the ladder to her bed, watching the bedroom door. Sei struggled to make out her facial expression, but from what she could see, Lucy's face was an impassive mask.   "What are you doing here?" Lucy asked.   "I- You were upset, so I came to you."   "Your girlfriend was upset too," Lucy said. "Why didn't you go to her?"   "I just. . ." Sei looked down, pausing for a moment to collect her thoughts. "Alice yelled to me 'Run! Go to her!' and. . . I just now realized she never specified who she meant by 'her', but apparently my mind had some ideas of who she should mean, because here I am." She looked up at Lucy. "I don't know what I'm supposed to say now, or what's supposed to happen. But as soon as you and I get done talking, however that works out, I'm going to go find Haley and break up with her. Because you're the first person I think about in the morning and the last person I think about at night, and she deserves someone who feels that way about her, and I'm not that person. I thought I was that person, because I thought you wanted to be with MJ, but I can't be that person, and now I know I don't want to." A single tear rolled down her cheek.   "Yeah," Lucy said, "after we're done here, you'd definitely better break up with her - I don't know her terribly well, but based on what I know, and on what Yeoreum has told me about her, she deserves better than to be someone's consolation prize."   Sei winced. "Ouch. I guess I deserved that."   Lucy nodded emphatically. "You deserve that and a lot more. It's a good thing we've got tomorrow off, because after the party, you and I have a lot of talking to do."   Sei nodded.   "Now," Lucy said, "unless she's gotten bored and come back inside, you'll find Haley in the hallway outside our apartment, and then we've got to get back to our guests."   ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   Twenty minutes later, Sei and Haley were walking back into the apartment from the hallway. If either of them had red eyes, their friends didn't let on that they'd noticed.   "So," Sei was saying, "I suppose you're my ex-girlfriend now, which is a new situation for me. Is it weird to still want to be friends with you?"   Haley shoo