A love-ly coincidence. (ON HOLD)

Every cloud has a silver lining

Chelsea sat on Tanya's bed taking selfies while Tanya sat at the dressing table practicing how to tie her hair in a cornrows bun.
This had been their norm since childhood, they would spend at least one day of the week together as girl time. However, over the years with the rise in prevalence of boyfriends, girl time had been reduced to whenever current boyfriend was unavailable to hang with or a breakup.

"Oh my gaaaaad" Chelsea squealed, "your phone camera quality is so good!"

"Hahaha I told you this brand is the best" Tanya laughed.

"You're so right" said Chelsea as she got up to change her sitting position, "how's the dating app going?"

"Ugh, I thought you said it's legit"

"Well it is" Chelsea pouted, "Patrick told me so"

"Patrick nah neh nih noh nuh" Tanya rolled her eyes.

"What?" Chelsea asked, "why do I sense attitude"

"Why shouldn't l?" Tanya cried "He's all you talk about, I know things aren't going smoothly with Ron but you can't just replace him"

Chelsea paused for second then rolled in a fit of laughter "no dummy, Patrick is gay hahaha I can't believe I made you think l like him that way. And he's got so much good advice, he's helping me fix things with Ron actually, so don't worry"

Tanya scrunched her mouth as the words sank in "oh great! So I'm the one who's being replaced huh"

"No silly, l love you both"

Tanya gasped in indignation "l can't believe you! You've only known this guy for like 2 weeks and you already love him as much as you've loved me in 14 years of friendship"

Chelsea frowned and was just about to carelessly spit a comeback, when her face calmed and she said gently "Tanya dear"

"No don't Tanya dear me!"

"May l know why not?"  Chelsea asked calmly.

"Ugh you're doing it again!"

"What dear?" Chelsea asked sweetly.

"Patronizing me! That's what!" At this point Tanya was really getting worked up.

Chelsea sensed a storm brewing so she put the phone down and focused on her friend.

"Look T, as much as your possessiveness is cute it really is also kinda disturbing for a girl your age"

"What-"

"No let me finish" Chelsea continued, "at this age you seriously can't be mad that I'm making new friends and expanding our social circle. Girl you're too cocooned in your own little world, so much that you're missing out on reality"

Tanya bit her lip and stopped tying the bun, her arms were aching and she stretched them, "so what do you suggest then 'Miss life fixer'?"

Chelsea smiled and waved her phone to her face, "how about we start with the lovely app on your phone"

"Ugh it's just weird, I don't like it, it doesn't even have profile pictures can you imagine, how am I supposed to know if I'm not talking to a serial women abductor?"