Pursuit of Happiness | Taz Skylar

012. groupchat

[zoe, bree & faye]

bree
figured it was about time i put together some kind of groupchat for my side of the wedding party

faye
it's a great idea!!

zoe
surprised it took you this long tbh
actually now that you think about it, i'm surprised you didn't get eloped the second he put the ring on your finger

bree
we thought it about it, but when i floated the idea to my parents about it they said that they would only be okay with it if they could come

faye
that's just not what an elopement is, tho

bree
right!! so we just decided to do the whole big shebang wedding thing
it's just easier than trying to convince our families that us getting eloped is not a big deal

zoe
that's fair
maybe i'll get eloped when i get married
it can just be a big party for like three days straight

bree
that sounds exhausting
at least we don't have to worry about it for a good while

zoe
yes, thankyou for flaunting your extremely happy relationship once again in my very single face

bree
idk i'm sure you'll end up sleeping with a groomsman or something at the wedding
you'll be fine

zoe
given that one groomsman is my ex and the other i hardly know, i find that very doubtful

faye
that explains a lot about everything that happened on that hike, actually

zoe
did she not warn you beforehand?

faye
she did not

zoe
ffs bree
but yeah taz and i were together a few years ago

bree
it's actually the whole reason why i organised the whole thing
i didn't want them to make the engagement party awkward as fuck

zoe
hey we would have behaved

bree
neither you or taz have EVER behaved in your entire lives
i've seen the kind of shit you guys used to get up to

faye
what kind of shit are we talking?

bree
he took her skydiving for their first date

faye
why??

zoe
i'd never been and i wanted to try it
but i'm never doing it again
even i have my limits

faye
so can i ask what happened??
you don't have to answer, if it was a bad breakup or something

zoe
no it's okay, it's all ancient history at this point
about five years ago, i was in the car with my parents and my sister when we were hit by a drunk driver and i was the only person who survived
taz was in london at the time, but he flew back over here the second he heard what happened, but the second i saw him i lost it
i didn't really mean it, but i told him that i didn't want to see him again 

faye
oh
shit

zoe
yeah it wasn't my finest moment

bree
for what it's worth, you did it with everyone

zoe
that doesn't make it any better

bree
i'm not saying it does
but the only reason you still have me and jay is because every time you tried to push away he would basically just tell you to shut up until you stopped trying

zoe
i still can't believe that worked
i'm really glad that it did, but still

bree
immovable object meets unstoppable force
the immovable object won

faye
that's not at all what i expected when i asked
i'm really sorry that that all happened, zoe

zoe
it's okay
out of curiosity, what did you expect?

faye
i don't know
that's why i asked
are you guys going to be okay for the wedding?

zoe
we'll be fine
we've been texting a little since he went back to work
things are still a little bit awkward, but we have plans to go rock climbing when he comes back for the engagement party

bree
wow
you didn't have to do all this for me

zoe
i'm not doing it for you, i'm doing it for me
i want to see if we can genuinely friends again

faye
that sounds nice

bree
you do remember that his version of rock climbing is just throw himself at a mountain, right?

zoe
yeah i know
i think there's an indoor rock climbing place that isn't far
i figured i could start going there sometimes, start building my strength up again

bree
i did not expect that hike to light a fire under your ass like it did

zoe
i just didn't realise how much i missed doing all this stuff

faye
hey, can we go with you sometime?
i've never been rock climbing and it looks fun

zoe
you absolutely can