@conscixnceclean - continued from [X]
"Well enough I suppose, yes."
Meg's smile is as infectious as Christine remembers it, and soon her own lips are curling into the kind of grin that felt more at home on the face of someone younger---a girl who had not yet known a world of mirrors and phantoms and heartbreak.
Christine's hands give Meg's a squeeze, determined not to let herself be overcome by such thoughts. Not now, when she has been reunited with her most cherished friend! No, she will allow nothing to ruin this moment.
"After---" her words catch, not wanting to speak aloud the events that surely they both remembered all too well. "---after we lost touch, I thought I would never see you again. And I certainly did not expect to see you here. It's been a wonderful surprise."
"Have you been performing here long?"















