How are you
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2017
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day Okay C, I’m impressed.
This was genuinely elaborate. You sound a little homesick, though. I’m sorry.
I’m okay. My boyfriend and I （yes the same one from last year） had plans to go away with his family this weekend, but two weeks ago I drove by him in his car making out with some girl I found out goes to a different high school, so he is now my ex-boyfriend, and tonight I’m learning to sew so I can make voodoo dolls and slowly stab them with sewing pins.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2017
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day Are you serious? That dude is a dick.
I ended things with my gf before I left for school and it was like two weeeks before she was dating one of my best friends. Iwas fine that she moved on and I wasn’t mad, but it made winter break pretty awkward.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2017
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day Woof. I bet.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2017
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day Yeah but do’nt worry about that. College has been good to me.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2017
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day Ok Romeo! Get yours!
See you next year.
T.
Chapter Five
2018
From: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Happy Valentine’s Day!
I WINNNNNNNNN
From: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!
NO FUCKING WAY, you will not believe this, but I was literally about to hit Send.
From: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!
And yet, she pulls out the win! Sweet, sweet victory!
What’s up, C? Are you drunk at a party again?
From: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!
Ha ha no, I have a huge exam tomorrow in [class name redacted for T’s privacy regulations], so I’m at the library.
Are you building voodoo dolls again?
Also, nice email address, girl, I see you.
From: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!
Had to keep with the trend. And since you’re literally the only person I email other than teachers or my grandparents, I figured we’d keep the talk of college parties off my school email address ha ha.
From: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!
Okay, yeah, about that. The next day I felt like such a dick. “College has been good to me.” But we don’t really message outside of this day, so I felt weird sending an email that was like, hey, sorry I sounded like a slutty douche last night. Figured in this case, the statute of limitations on apologies is at least one year.
From: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!
You’re not a slutty douche, C, you’re a conundrum wrapped in a mystery tied with a puzzle shoved in a pickle jar. Apology unnecessary but accepted.
From: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!
Oh my god.
I forgot about that.
From: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!
Well, lucky for both of us and the importance of history, I did not.
Are you feeling more settled at school?
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2018
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!
Yeah, I think that night I was just feeling homesick. You’re a senior now, right, so if you’re going to college you probably know or will know soon where you’re going. If you haven’t decided yet, let me encourage you to take the leap and go somewhere new. It’s hard, but it’s worth it. I don’t know about you but I’m super close to my family, and I think it would have been so easy to just stay local and be in school there, but there really is something great about going somewhere different and seeing a new part of the country or world.