He Loved My Best Friend, So I Walked Away

While I was picking out a birthday gift for my best friend, Juliana Graves, I settled on a Bluetooth speaker.

My boyfriend, Elwin Harding, gave a soft little laugh, a trace of mockery in his voice.

"You're supposed to be her best friend. How do you not even know what she wants?"

He pulled a notebook out of his bag. The cover read 100 Things About Her. He flipped to a page.

"What Juliana wants most for her birthday is a bottle of jasmine perfume. Not a speaker like that."

My fingers stiffened as I took it, and I turned the pages one by one.