Gone From the Close Friends List
A coworker mentioned Mara's story like I'd seen it. I haven't been on her close friends list in weeks.
Priya brought it up in the break room like it was nothing. Did you see Mara's story last night, the one from the rooftop thing? I said something vague and let her keep talking so she wouldn't notice I hadn't seen anything.
I've been telling myself Mara and I are just in a slow patch. People get busy. It happens. But I'm home now, it's late, and I finally checked. Her account still shows up when I search it. Her main posts still let me in. It's just the little star icon next to her name, the close friends thing, gone.
I don't know when that happened. I only know there was a version of her account where I saw more than this, and that version isn't the one I have anymore.
I could ask her. Hey, weird question, am I still on your list? Six words. I've typed it and deleted it twice tonight.
I keep thinking about the version of this where she just forgot to re-add people after switching phones, some boring explanation that fixes all of it. I keep not sending the message that would tell me which one it actually is.