Hey guys! Guess who broke 500 followers? Too slow, it was me. To celebrate, here's the first chapter of season two! The rest of the episodes won't come until January, this is just a thank you for all your amazing-ness!

Heidi stares off into space, trying to process the crazy tale I just shared. I think the onslaught of information broke her brain. She sinks down next to me on the couch, her head still in the clouds.

"How... how do you end up in these situations?" She finally mumbles. 

How am I supposed to know? I plop my head on her shoulder, heaving a sigh. I guess I just invite trouble. Heidi doesn't move, but rests her head on mine. A few minutes tick by as we sit in silence.

I miss this. Ever since the whole thing with D'arcy started I pretty much shut her out. Even before this, her fiance kept acting like he was Heidi's best friend or something. And when she started acting like it too (or when I thought she was), well, I guess I backed off and bumped into a prince. 

"At least it's over now," She says, trying to comfort me. 

Crap... is that what she got from it? What do I do? An impulsive confirmation escapes my lips, "Yeah."

And suddenly she's off the couch, gaping down at me in shock, "You're still together!" 

I feel myself turn red as I attempt to salvage the charade, "No!" 

She pinches the bridge of her nose, probably trying to remember how we're still friends, "Why? Why would-- I thought?" She sighs, though it's closer to a moan, "My best friend has lost it."

"We're not--"

She snaps her head toward me, daring me to finish the lie. I drop the sentence, though I'm still searching for a good explanation. 

"I should have known!" She grunts, throwing her hands in the air. "I thought it was because of your dad. Thought that's why you were acting all weird. But no, she was off finagling princes." 

"I didn't finagle!" 

"Didn't finagle," She scoffs, pacing a hole in my apartment. "Didn't finagle. Gonna marry a prince and become the queen of finagling." 

"What does-- what does that even mean? You're not even making sense."

Heidi spins around, "Me? I'm not making sense? You're saying I'm not making sense?"

I hesitate a moment, "Yes?"

"YOU AGREED TO MARRY A STRANGER!"

I cross my arms, hoping I look more confidant than I feel, "So?" 

She blinks at me a few times. I try to stand a little taller under the weight of her gaze. Suddenly she laces her fingers together, bringing them up to her chin as her eyes squeeze shut. She sucks in a deep breath before whispering, "Please tell me you didn't say that."

"What's it to you?" I snap. 

She breathes out slowly, attempting to stay calm. It must of worked some because she finally manages, "Okay. Let's... let's talk about this, Gypsy. If this is about me and Jack--"

"Really?" I huff, "I have a quarter-life crisis and you peg it on your engagement?"

She shrugs, "I know you've been lonely--"

"Lonely?" Is she being serious? "Heidi, I-I don't care. I mean I miss you, I missed it being the two of us. But lonely isn't anything new. I'm not-- this isn't about your love life. People love you, not like you can help it."

"People love you too, okay? You don't have to get married to--"

"It's not like that, Heidi. It's not romantic, we're not pretending to be in love. I mean... I guess we kinda are. Kinda were."

"Were?" Heidi echoes, picking up on the past tense.

I purse my lips, my gaze falling to the floor. I feel all the fight drain out of me as my shoulders sag, "Yeah. I don't know if we're still together... I'm kinda too scared to ask."

My best friend's eyes search me for a moment, and I wonder what she sees. I don't expect her to understand. I love her to death, but our lives are very different. Heidi's parents wanted her, I was an accident. While she was getting her first kiss my father was demanding that mom and I never contact him again. 

I can tell Heidi's still trying to read my mind, so I save her the effort, "I left. Somebody actually picks me for once and I leave. I mean, I couldn't even last a week. There's no way he'd... Why would he stick with me?" 

And try as I might, I can't think of a single reason. He's got Jessamy and no telling how many other girls willing to marry him, girls he actually knows. Honestly, I doubt he'd even want to stay friends after I ran off like that. 

Heidi wraps her arms around me and I surrender to the hug. Somehow we end up where we started, back on the couch and leaning on each other. 

Reality broke up our sad-face session. Heidi had work. She mentioned calling in, but I told her not to bother. I forced a smile and assured her I was okay. She was far from convinced, but really didn't have a choice. Reluctantly she left, already running a few minutes late. 

Moments later there's a knock on my door. 

"Go to work!" I groan from the couch. She can't just skip every time I'm having a bad day. Yet there's another knock. Sighing dramatically, I drag myself off the sofa. What is she doing? Her boss is crazy! Probably would murder her if she tried to call in this late. 

I unlock the door, already reciting my list of reasons that she has to adult.

"I appreciate the best friendness and all, but if you get fired it's not my--"

I swing open door, expecting Heidi to wrestle her way back in. Instead a tall figure fills the frame. Familiar dark eyes lock with mine as I take a step back.

"Fault," I mutter.

"Can we talk?" D'arcy asks softly, hesitating in the doorway.