iâll email him. shld i email him? cuz he acted like things were over b/w us when he was telling me about tonnie, but maybe thatâs just cuz heâs afraid i wonât give him a second chance.
mad maddie:
ANGELA. STOP RIGHT NOW.
SnowAngel:
but what if itâs true love? i canât walk away from true love!
zoegirl:
do you REALLY think itâs true love?
SnowAngel:
it MIGHT be. and i donât wanna be the kind of person whoâs not willing to put in the work, u know? love takes work. itâs not all cake and ice cream.
mad maddie:
all right, i canât deal with this. bye, ladies.
SnowAngel:
maddie?
SnowAngel:
zoe, did maddie really go away?
zoegirl:
looks like it
SnowAngel:
maddie doesnât get it, cuz sheâs never been in love. but itâs better to have lived and loved than never to have loved at all.
zoegirl:
i guess
SnowAngel:
itâs TRUE. and now iâm gonna email rob like i said i would, cuz uâve made me feel so much better.
zoegirl:
i have?
SnowAngel:
yeah. thanks for the pep talk, i needed it.
Mon, Oct 4, 5:59 PM E.D.T .
mad maddie:
zoe, angela is her own worst enemy, you know.
zoegirl:
i love her so much, but i do kind of understand what youâre saying. but i donât know how to tell her that to her face. i donât even know if i want to say it to her face.
mad maddie:
i do. i just wanna shake her shoulders and say, âGET A CLUE! HE IS A LOSER!!!â
zoegirl:
i know. itâs so sad.
mad maddie:
yeah, but itâs also just ANNOYING.
mad maddie:
i didnât wanna mention it in front of angela, but can i tell u what a great time i had at work saturday night?
zoegirl:
with ian?
mad maddie:
we splashed dishwater at each otherâit was vair vair flirty and fun. and get this: he asked if i wanted to hang out with him next weekend, after our shifts r over.
zoegirl:
no way!
mad maddie:
way!
zoegirl:
you said yes, iâm assuming?
mad maddie:
oh, i was very coy as i turned bright red and mumbled, âuuh, sure!â i was quite the vixen.
zoegirl:
oh, maddie, you are going to have an awesome birthday weekend. youâre still going out with me and angela on friday, right?
mad maddie:
ackâi totally forgot. actually, the rents have had a rare moment of parental affection and wannatake me to that brazilian restaurant where u get heaps and heaps of meat. sounds like my kind of place, baby.
zoegirl:
this friday? theyâre taking you to Meat Land this friday?
mad maddie:
uh, yes, since that would be my bdayâ¦
zoegirl:
but you said uâd go out with us!
mad maddie:
so weâll go out saturday instead, only itâll have to be in the morning since i work that night. oooâwe could do the all-u-can-eat breakfast buffet at shoneyâs!
zoegirl:
yeah, but angela had her heart set on being with you on your exact birthday. i donât mean to make a big deal out of this, but sheâll be really disappointed if we donât get together.
mad maddie:
thatâs ridiculous
zoegirl:
i know, but still. sheâd be really, really disappointed. sheâs just so fragile right now.
mad maddie:
fine. iâll tell the rents to take me out another time, i guess.
zoegirl:
excellent idea. maybe THEY can take u to shoneyâs.
mad maddie:
whatevs
mad maddie:
welp, time to bounce. mark is gonna take me driving in a minute here, and i must do my limbering-up exercises. rotate the wrists, rotate the neck, practice my patented scan for dogs and small childrenâ¦
zoegirl:
have fun.
mad maddie:
only four more days!!!
Mon, Oct 4, 7:45 PM E.D.T .
SnowAngel:
i wrote rob that email. iâm not gonna show it tomaddie cuz sheâd just be mean, but do u wanna read it?
zoegirl:
angela. are you sure robâs really worth it?
SnowAngel:
hereâs what it says:
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Dear Rob, I just wanted to say that itâs totally cool if you want to hang out with other people. Obviously Tonnie is just a friend, because why would anyone choose her when they