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if I knew…damn it, this sucks. I have to tell
Steven,” she added as she rested her chin on her desk. She
looked like a sad dog whose owner had just left her. Meg looked at
her and gave her a sad smile,
    “ I
think this is the best thing for him and you. For both of you,”
she said. Julie sat up and then rest her chin on her hand.
    “ I
know. I just don’t know how he’ll take it,” she
confessed.
    “ Come
on. Steven is a sensible person. He’s probably the most
sensible person I have ever met,” Meg reassured her. “There
is no reason why he wouldn’t understand this,” she added.
Julie’s eyes were suddenly full of hope.
    “ You
think so?” she asked.
    “ Well,
yes. But then again, I am your best friend. It is my job to always
tell you what you want to hear,” Meg said with a smile. Julie
wanted to throw something at her. But everything on her desk was a
potential homicidal weapon. “You have crazy eyes right now
Juelz,” she teased.
    “ That’s
because I want to kill you right now,” Julie joked. Meg smiled.
    “ I’m
just trying to lighten the mood,” she said.
    “ You
are failing miserably at that,” Julie grumbled. “You
should never ever be
a motivational speaker. Stick to your day job,” she added. Meg
laughed and pushed her cake slice to Julie. “Now you are trying
to make me pissed off and fat, aren’t you?”
    “ No,
sweetie. It’s your party and you should have fun. Everything
that happened today doesn’t change the fact that you love
Steven and that you guys are going to get married soon. It’s
not like you lied or anything,” Meg said. Julie looked at her
and shrugged.
    “ I
know you’re trying to cheer me up, but all I can think of right
now is the fact that I am Julie fucking Lockwood,” she cursed.
Meg stood up and walked round the desk to where Julie was.
    “ You
are going to be Julie fucking dead person if you keep on talking
about this shit. And that’s not a threat, it’s a
guarantee,” she argued as she gave Julie one of those looks
that made her best friend realize that she meant business. Julie
closed her eyes and rested her head on her desk again. Somehow, this
seemed to be the worst thing that could possibly happen for so many
reasons. She didn’t have a clue why the hell things had turned
out the way they did. If it were any other ex, it would have been
okay but not Evan. She raised her head from the desk and looked at
Meg.
    “ I
want to assume all this, but we all know what people say about
assuming,” she said. Meg smiled.
    “ You
are making an ass of you and me?” she questioned. Julie nodded.
“What really did happen between you and this Lockwood guy? Why
is this so bad for you? I mean, it’s not like you knew it all
this time and decided to carefully select the truth or something,”
she said. Julie shrugged. “I know there is something. I can see
it all over your face,” she added. Julie looked at her and
shook her head.
    “ You
know how people talk about the one who got away and stuff like that?”
she asked. Meg nodded. “Well, until I met Steven, Evan had
always been the one who got away for me. I was…smitten. I saw
myself in the family home with two point five kids and a white picket
fence…you know, the whole shebang,” she explained. Meg
raised an eyebrow.
    “ You
in a white picket fence? That I do not see,” she laughed.
    “ I
know right? But Evan was able to make me have that mindset and I
swear it could have worked too. At least I thought it was,”
Julie sighed. She smiled. “You know I actually considered
having the whole thing in play…like quit my job and
everything. That is how much he got to me,” she added as she
looked at a confused Meg. In all the years they had known each other,
Meg had never known Julie to be anything more than a career woman. It
was just hard to imagine her as a domestic wife. It was too Mary
Poppins for her.
    “ So
what happened?” Meg asked.
    “ One
day he told me he wanted to spend the