62: Feeling Guilty

SCARLETT

Anna had asked me to work on a lower ranked model’s makeup for a shoot since Maeve didn’t need my services for the afternoon. Maeve had been invited as a member of a fashion panel at a Vogue event so her makeup was being done across me by a makeup artist sent from Vogue.

For some reason, she kept talking to me the entire time, barely allowing me focus on the other model’s makeup.

“Can you believe how easily we clicked? And now, we’re literally best friends, it’s amazing when I think of it,” Maeve winked childishly and I truly wondered how she’d not figured out the the friendship was one sided.

“Have you seen the magazine that was basically a picture compilation from the Moxie fundraiser? It was sold out the second it dropped but I snagged one from Anna, and guess what?” she smiled expectantly, waiting patiently for me to respond.

“Let me guess, there’s a lovely picture of you and Alex in it?” I played along.

But god knows my throat dried up at the mention of Alex, especially