Chapter 15. Pleasant Feelings of Familiarity and Unfamiliarity

The next morning, Phoenix had already left by the time I came out to have breakfast. Setting down my laptop, I decide to focus on the upcoming events, choosing to bury yesterday’s events in a hatched box somewhere.

After breakfast, I decide to check my emails on my laptop. I have a few unattended ones - one is from the boutique from which I have chosen a gown. They say it is ready, and I can pick it up whenever. The second email is from the cake studio where I had my interview- I click on it, and while it loads, I close my eyes, counting backward from five. Reaching one, I open my eyes to read the mail - and I had gotten in.

“Charlotte! Charlotte! Charlotte! I got in.” I shriek with excitement, jumping down from the couch to tell her.

She is in the kitchen and embraces me, congratulating me earnestly. “I am so happy for you. Now give your boyfriend a call, too.”

“Yeah, of course,” I say with a smile. It’s not like he would care much. He drew back those invisi