“Would you please just come out with us tonight, Andie? Jorge is bringing those prosciutto canapes that you love. And Jordan will be there.” Jamies says the last with a whining, weedling tone. “You know that I’m under a deadline. If I don’t get this website finished in the next two days, I’ve gotta work my ass off. And I hate parties,” I tell her as I continue the braid crown that she asked me to do in her hair. “How does someone hate parties? I will never understand that. The food, the music, the dancing,” she lists off. “The hangovers, the awkward small talk, the weird attempts at people hooking me up with their friends,” I counter, pinning her hair and picking up the hairspray. “Well, you know that you could always hang out with us. Jorge wouldn’t mind,” she says. God, does she have no idea about the crush that I have on her boyfriend? How is that even possible? Jamie is my roommate. The two of us work together at Sasquatch Books here in San Francisco, her in
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