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many good things about. I am angry because this didn’t have to happen, but then it happened anyway. I feel like a complete fool for thinking it could have been otherwise. And I feel like an even worse fool for getting Violet so excited and then having to tell her, Sorry, it isn’t going to work, after all. I’d ask if this makes sense to you, fratboy, but I couldn’t give a shit whether or not it makes sense to you.”
    “Stop,” Katie says. “Just stop. It was my mistake. Not his.”
    “So you at least admit it was a mistake?”
    “Why does that matter, Lehna? Really, why?”
    Katie doesn’t sound angry. Just tired. My hand remains on her back. She is leaning into it a little.
    My phone vibrates again, still in my other hand.
    “Sorry,” I say, looking at the screen.
    My mother.
    Tell me you are on your way to the station.
    Katie gives me a curious glance.
    “My alibi’s been shredded and my mom wants me on the next train home,” I explain.
    “I’ll drive you,” she says.
    “You’ll drive him ?” Lehna huffs.
    Got a ride back, I text. Then I check my messages. Still nothing from Ryan.
    Katie steps away from my hand. Steps toward June and Uma.
    “I’m sorry I left without telling you,” she says. “I wasn’t ready. I wanted it so much, and I wasn’t ready for that.”
    June looks like she’s going to say something, but Uma squeezes her hand and gestures her head in Lehna’s direction.
    “You’re never going to be ready,” Lehna says, her voice warming somewhat. “Don’t you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don’t, you’re always going to run away.”
    I almost feel like it’s Ryan here, lecturing me. Except that my problem has never been about running away. My problem has been about staying in the same place.
    “Where did she go?” Katie asks Lehna. “Just tell me.”
    Lehna shakes her head. “Not tonight. Not now. It’s too late.”
    My phone starts to make itself known again. Once I see it’s not Ryan, I leave it alone.
    “I came back to see her,” Katie says. “Don’t you see that? I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t ready to see her. I’m still scared, but I’m not too scared.”
    Lehna offers a hand, and I think for a second that this is it, Katie’s won her over. But instead she says, “Let it go for tonight. Come in and have a drink. Shelbie’s been asking about you, and I think she’s still sober enough to register that you’ve returned. Plus, they have Tanqueray.”
    Katie leaves Lehna’s hand hanging in the air.
    “You’re not going to tell me where she is? You know, and you’re not going to tell me?”
    Lehna pulls her hand back, wipes it against her skirt. “She moved on. She was disappointed, but she moved on. You should do the same. And we can see where we are tomorrow.”
    I’m figuring if I didn’t see Katie at the club early on, odds are she wasn’t there for much time. So this Violet didn’t wait all that long before moving on, whatever that means.
    Maybe Katie’s doing this math, too. Or maybe she’s feeling like I am—tired from this whole night, tired from all the drama.
    “I think it’s time for me to go home,” she says. “I know I’m your ride, and I don’t want to leave you stranded. But I really want to go now.”
    June and Uma both look to Lehna, to see where this is going next.
    Lehna doesn’t disappoint.
    “Come on, Katie—”
    “Kate.”
    “Okay, Katherine— don’t be like that. Don’t punish us for what you did. The night is still young and my mother is, I’m sure, too knocked out on sleeping pills to hear people come and go. We can get home at four in the morning and no one will notice. Don’t ruin our night just because you ruined yours.”
    Katie pulls her keys out of her pocket and dangles them in the air.
    “Are you coming?” she asks June and Uma.
    June looks at Uma. Uma looks at Lehna, then shakes her head.
    “We’ll find someone else to drive us,” Lehna says. “Or take a cab. I don’t