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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    Spiralling after your ex resurfaces after 20 years and has a version of events of your break up that is very much different to yours is normal, right? Emily Charlton is asking for a friend.

    OR

    The thought arrived uninvited and immediately irritated her.

    Across the table, Andrea was studying the condensation running down the side of her water glass, apparently oblivious to the fact that she had just made the last two decades considerably more confusing. People did not usually remember promotions, or cities someone had lived in, or the exact order in which those things had happened. They certainly didn’t recall them casually over lunch nearly twenty years later. At least, not unless they had been paying attention. Not unless, at some point, they had actively wanted to know.

    And if Andrea had been paying attention all this time, then Emily suddenly found herself confronted with a question she had never once considered asking.

    Why?

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    15 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 65

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    Because she always wants to hear everything from Emily. Except, apparently, this.

    “I met someone.”

    Andy blinks. Once. Twice.

    Her fingers tighten fractionally around the stem of her wine glass. She swallows. Pulls in a breath that feels strangely shallow in her lungs.

    “That’s great, Em,” she means to say immediately. Brightly, effortlessly. “Tell me everything.”

    Instead, what comes out is small and terribly honest.

    “Oh.”

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    13 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    Andy was too nice, not a word hadn’t been exchanged in months, and here she was, worrying over Emily's mental state. Too bad that Emily didn’t have any air left to form words with. Andy kept speaking on the phone, unaware that Emily lacked any capacity to answer. Her vision was going dark around the edges now, but maybe it was what she deserved.

    “Em, I can hear you, you’re scaring me”

    Why wouldn’t Andy let her fall apart in peace.

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    Andy quits and Emily doesn't react very well.

    Emily is in deep deep denial (of most things really).

    This was super inspired by a tweet I saw the other day, shoutout to you author of that tweet.

    TW Panic Attacks

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    02 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 29

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    Andrea works the night shift at the front desk of a luxury hotel in New York.
    Emily is a regular client who always arrives alone, always too late, always impeccable.

    They don't talk much at first.
    Then they start talking too much.

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    02 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 27

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    Andy found herself nodding, still bewildered. Elijah. Egyptologist. Absolutely not the man you would imagine next to Emily Charlton, of all people.

    Not that she imagined Emily Charlton in a romantic aspect often.

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    Emily has a boyfriend and Andy is a loser. Nigel clocks them in three seconds flat.

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    29 May 2026