The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Abby
New York City
April 2021
I’M getting married!” Kara hollered into Abby’s ear. The words came borne on
a gust of tequila-scented breath as Kara grabbed Abby’s hand and squeezed. “I’m
so happy! Are you happy for me?”
“Of course I am,” Abby said, guiding her friend over a crack in the sidewalk.
“If you’re happy, I’m happy.”
“I AM!” Karashouted into the Brooklyn night. “I AM happy!”
“Maybe let’s be happy a little more quietly,” Abby suggested as Marissa,
another member of the bridal party, came teetering toward them and slung her
arm around Abby’s neck. At the beginning of the night, Marissa had given each of
the women a pink feather boa, and they had started to shed. Abby saw pink
feathers floating in the air, drifting gently down onto the pavement.
“You’re next,” Marissa said, poking her finger against Abby’s chest. “You and
Mark.”
“Mark and I have been on exactly two dates,” Abby said, bemused.
“Doesn’t matter,” Marissa said, and looked Abby in the eye. “He loves you.
He’s been in love with you since he was thirteen! That’s…” Marissa wobbled to a
halt, her cute nose wrinkled, incapable of walking drunk in high heels and doing
math at the same time.
“Eighteen years,” said Abby, who was not precisely sober but who was also not
anywhere near as tipsy as her friends. “But we’ve only been back in each other’s
lives for fifteen minutes.”
“Doesn’t matter.” Marissa gave a dismissive wave of her hand. “He loooves
you.”
Abby surveyed the rest of the party. There were Kara’s college friends: a trust
and estates lawyer, a crisis communication expert, a banker who lived in San
Francisco. There were a few other summer camp friends—Marissa, who lived in a
suburb of Chicago with her husband and two little girls; Hannah, a physician’s
assistant; and Chelsea, who worked as a public radio producer in Portland,
Oregon. Then there was Abby, an employee of a doggie daycare called Pup Jawn,
a freelance dog-walker and sometime Uber driver, who’d started and dropped out
of two different master’s degree programs, one in early childhood education, the
other in library sciences. Abby had gotten used to being the biggest girl in a group,
but now she’d arrived at a point where she was both the biggest and the least
accomplished. This development did not fill her heart with joy.
As Kara wobbled and Marissa giggled, Abby realized that she had two choices:
either she was going to have to stop drinking until she felt less maudlin, or keep
drinking until her brain turned off. She adjusted her own boa, arranging it to lie
against the V-neck of her tee shirt, which was black, with the word BRIDESMAID
spelled out in crystals on the chest, and followed the group into a bodega, past the
cash register and the indifferent clerk behind it, down an aisle stocked with ramen
and crackers and candy bars, boxes of steel wool scrubbing pads, and bottles of
Fabuloso, then out its back door.
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