Situationship Season: Summer Edition

The trip was described as 'just the boys'. The location was described as 'somewhere in Spain'. The read receipts, previously on for eleven months, were described as 'a phone update thing'. Reader, it is not a phone update thing.

It is always a low-effort message. It is always a Thursday. It always arrives when he is bored and somewhere warm, and it always contains the word 'hey' followed by nothing, as though the burden of the conversation is a gift he is offering you.

They met on day three. They exchanged plans by day nine. She has now told her mother, and the group chat has split cleanly into those saying 'let her have this' and those saying, privately, in a second group chat, something considerably less generous.