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chapter two: the spirit queen
"Karen had a party at her house maybe six months ago. It was the night Karen and Kelly and I stopped being friends." Imogen says.
"Wait, I think I was at this party, randomly, fully tryna be on of those cool kids in that '80s rom-com kind of way." Tabby says as I smile at her.
"Oh, yeah, I saw you with your boyfriend." Noa says as I furrow my eyebrows.
"Who, Chip?" Tabby says looking at me again. "No, Chip is not my boyfriend. He's more like my gay best friend who happens to be straight."
"Well, I was there with my boyfriend right, right before he became my boyfriend."
"I heard about the party... after the fact." Mouse says.
"Karen invited me to that party, but I chose not to go." Faran eyes widen.
"I went, I was with my.. boyfriend." I say.
"Oh, that asshole Daniel?" Noa asked.
"Yeah."
"Shawn hates him."
"He's not the only one." Tabby shrugged as I laugh.
"There's a video from that night that someone made on their phone of Karen, which, if people saw it... would destroy her." Imogen says as I turn to her.
"Destroy Karen?" Noa leaned in. "Like, embarrass Karen?"
"If we posted it somewhere?" Faran asked.
"Exactly. She is messy as fuck in it." Imogen nods.
"The internet is... for eternity." Mouse says.
"I'm just gonna ask what we're all thinking." I say. "Is it a sex video?"
"No! I would never. Not a sex video." Imogen shakes her head as I shrug.
"Okay, well if we didn't wanna post it, and it's not a sex video... I could screen it." Tabby says.
"How?" Noa asked.
"I work at the Orpheum. Depending on what kind of file it is, I could project it right before my Jordan Peele double feature. By the way, you all have to come. Kids would see it, but it wouldn't be on the internet... forever."
"Unless they record it."
"Maybe I could edit the video. Make it short enough so people don't even have enough time to pull out their phones."
"Sheer genius." I say as Tabby smiled at me.
"Okay where's the video?" Faran questions. "Can we see it?"
"I have it on a phone at my house." Imogen tells us.
