Go Away Chris
"You should get him to tell you about the summers we spent with the same friend group in our early twenties. A lot of good stories there."
The elevator opened at that moment and Chris stepped out, his jacket on, his phone in his hand, already scanning the lobby for me. He found me and his face did the thing it did, and then his eyes moved to the woman beside me and something else crossed his expression, not alarm exactly, but a shift I caught and filed away without knowing yet what to do with.
"Ayesha." He came directly to me and kissed my cheek, and then looked at Vanessa with the controlled neutrality of a man making a quick social calculation. "Vanessa. I didn't know you were coming in to