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    “Oh, Andrea.”

    The name slipped out before Emily could stop it. Andrea’s breath caught, and Emily heard it. The sound was small. It was devastating - and Emily decided to dig the knife in deeper.

    “That has always been the problem, hasn’t it?” Emily said. “You don’t know. You don’t know what you want until someone else has paid the price. You don’t know whether you want fashion or journalism, ambition or virtue, New York or elsewhere, me or the clean little story where leaving was brave because staying would have been complicated.” Andrea’s face went white. Emily kept going, her voice barely a whisper. “You arrive twenty years later with slightly better trousers and a sad little apology, and I am meant to do what, exactly? Admire your growth? Provide texture for your article? Reassure you that the woman you abandoned has done splendidly, actually, so no harm done?”

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    Andrea leaves Emily, who has famously not got over a single thing in her life. Now Andrea's back with a vengeance - and Emily is taking the vengeance part quite literally. Minimal plot, quite a bit of smut from chapter two onward. For the love of God, please heed the tags.

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    31 Aug 2026

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    Because she always wants to hear everything from Emily. Except, apparently, this.

    “I met someone.”

    Andy blinks. Once. Twice.

    Her fingers tighten fractionally around the stem of her wine glass. She swallows. Pulls in a breath that feels strangely shallow in her lungs.

    “That’s great, Em,” she means to say immediately. Brightly, effortlessly. “Tell me everything.”

    Instead, what comes out is small and terribly honest.

    “Oh.”

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    20 Aug 2026

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    “Are you done?” he asks.

    “Yes.”

    “Are you sure?”

    “…Yes.”

    Nigel nods. Says, very mildly, to the wall and not to her: “You have spent half an hour telling me why he is wrong for her; and not once have you told me who you think would be right.”

    She opens her mouth.

    She closes it.

    A small, traitorous thought slips in sideways before she can shut the door on it. She shuts the door on it.

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    Or the one where Emily and Andrea are friends. Great friends. Best friends. Just friends.

    So why the fuck does Andrea want to pull her hair out at the thought of Emily having a boyfriend?

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    06 Jul 2026

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    "She thinks we're on a date," Emily said, when the woman had gone, around a spoonful of something with figs in it.

    "We're two friends having dinner."

    "At a candlelit corner table for two and a half hours."

    "It's a small restaurant, they're all corner tables."

    "You ordered me the exact side I would have ordered, if I'd been allowed to keep reading the menu instead of being informed I'd taken long enough."

    "That's not a date, that's paying attention."

    "Mm," said Emily, in a tone that conceded precisely nothing, and ate the fig dessert, and did not, Andy noted, ever actually get around to saying it wasn't.

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    More than a decade after Andy had left runway, a chance meeting at a bakery reunites her with Emily, freshly divorced and pregnant with her second child. What follows is, of course, a love story.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    “You okay?” Andy whispers while pulling carefully, opening up Emily’s chest and directing her arm straighter.

    “No,” Emily whispers back through a straining jaw, “this is terrible and I hate it and you.”

    “But we’ve only just met,” Andy murmurs with a wide smile. Emily sees it sideways.

    “And this is a horrible first impression,” she whispers, broken at the end by a pained groan she attempts to muffle into her shoulder.

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    Emily tries hot yoga. She hates it. It's the best thing she's ever done.

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    28 Jun 2026