I was about to walk out of this building for the last time, and she was starting to give me the impression that I was the closest thing she had to a friend. Porn When she turned eighteen, she attended NYU to study theater and became a moderately successful actor. What role?”
“Elphaba.”
“Damn! I shouldn’t have-”
“You didn’t do anything wrong,” she said, cutting me off again. “Hey Em,” I said, staring as I reflexively returned my part of the greeting we’d used most of our lives. “Nah,” I said. She was working hard, and I was proud of her even though I did miss having her around. My phone buzzed in my hand, pulling me out of my journey down memory lane, and I glanced at it – Jessica again. “Thank you,” she said, her voice quiet. You’re losing me as a neighbor… not as a friend.”
A single sob burst from her and she contained the rest as her face contorted in another fit of crying. “Good luck!”
“Thanks,” she said and looked around the dump she briefly called home. The guy who had a bus-load of ambition, but almost none
