She Was Never Nobody
The night before the engagement banquet, my fiancé Matt's childhood friend Salina told me she had a surprise for the bride.
She lured me up to the glass conservatory on the hotel rooftop, locked the door behind me, and switched on every sprinkler in the room.
December in New York. Ice water crashed down from above, and the conservatory's four walls were pure transparent glass.
The guests below held up their phones and watched me shiver in humiliation.
she smiled with feigned innocence.
"Hasn't Evelyn always thought so highly of herself? Let everyone see what she looks like begging to be let out of the cold."
My fiancé Matt stood down below, watching me through the curtain of water, his voice