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hope I’ll see you again soon.”
    “Well, you would know,” I say with a chuckle as we start to walk to the front of the store.
    She chuckles too. “Yes, I guess I would.”
    “I’ll definitely think about the Chanel,” I say. “Thank you, Elise.”
    “You’re so welcome, Amelia. I wish you the best.”
    I smile and leave the store, still a little weirded out as I walk to Shop and Bag where I buy coffee, sugar, cream, some fresh cinnamon rolls from the bakery up the street, bread, a variety of lunchmeat plus condiments and potato chips. I’ll do lunch at the station and eat dinner at Mags’ I guess.
    Back at the station, I spend several hours cleaning and sprucing up the apartment and being in a shit mood. I know I’m not going to be here long, but I want to be comfortable during my stay, so to cheer myself up a little more, I walk back down the other side of the street to a little shop I noticed on my walk to Jen’s last night that has some kick-ass end tables in the window.
    A little bell tinkles when the door opens and a woman hollers from the back, “Be right out!”
    I go right to the tables and know I have to have them. They’re shaker-style, painted in a distressed red and each has a single drawer with a wooden knob on it. So cute.
    I hear the old wood floor creaking under the woman’s feet as she walks toward me. “Hi, how can I hel—Amelia?”
    I look up and frown for a second before I realize who she is. “Piper? Oh, my gosh!”
    She comes forward and throws her arms around me in a hug, which I return. “How are you?” she asks as she pulls back, smiling at me.
    “I’m good! How about you?”
    Piper Knowlton was two years behind me in school but we became fast friends when she started dating Brody their sophomore year and I was a senior. She’s still adorably cute, being all of five feet nothing, and I’ve always envied her gorgeous strawberry blond hair with its natural wave that she now has pulled back in a bun which is why I didn’t recognize her at first.
    “When did you get back in town?” She looks up at me with her curious sky blue eyes.
    “Yesterday. And I’ve already made a drunken fool of myself. Thanks for asking,” I say with a laugh.
    “Well, that doesn’t sound like you at all,” she says with a snicker. We’d partied many times together my senior year because Kade was gone and she and Brody felt responsible for keeping me occupied.
    “That’s me, party girl!” I say still chuckling, rolling my eyes and shaking my head. “So I’ve seen Brody a couple times. When are you two getting hitched so we can throw a real party?”
    Her smile fades and she gets a melancholy look before stating, “We broke up last year.”
    This shocks the heck out of me because they were always the perfect couple, so cute and sweet together. “What? Oh, I’m so sorry, Piper.”
    “Yeah, me too. If you see his stupid ass again, tell him he needs to get a freakin’ clue, will you?”
    I chuckle. “I’ll definitely give him a piece of my mind when I see him next.”
    “Come sit down and let’s catch up!” She grabs my hand pulling me toward a little seating area near the back and we sit on the cutest little loveseat. Then she says, “How about some tea?” and jumps up heading to a counter.
    “That’d be great, thanks. This sofa is adorable,” I tell her looking down at it and running a hand over the cushion as she gets a tea service out of a cabinet.
    She glances over with a smile and continues with our drinks. “It’s actually a slipcover I made. I saw the material and had to have it.”
    We go on with our small talk, catching each other up on what’s been going on in our lives the last five years until the teakettle whistles. She then pours the water into a teapot and brings it over to the coffee table on a small, china tray that has a matching tea service on it.
    “Everything in this store is so cute!” I exclaim. I think I might have to buy the same tea service too,