My Springtime
At the mall, I bent down to pick up my phone.
By the time I stood up, my boyfriend and best friend were already thirty feet ahead of me.
I had just wanted to call out, but the place that once belonged to me was slowly being closed.
They walked side by side, still discussing investment terms I could not understand. It was as though there had never been anyone between them.
In college, Sean and Wendy had been the brightest students in the business school.
After graduation, they became the youngest deputy CEOs in the investment banking industry.
No matter how hard I worked, I could only manage an administrative job at a small company and barely touched the edge of their world.
Sean liked to pinch my cheek. "It's okay. Being a little slow is cute, too."
Then, he would turn to Wendy, and the two of them could sketch out an entire merger plan with a single glance.
Watching them walk away, I suddenly felt exhausted.
I didn't want to keep chasing Sean down a road where I'd always fall behind.