I smiled at that as I bit down on a sour gummy peach. Breakfast was the most important meal of the day, after all. “So—” I started, just as the guest bedroom door opened and Stevie came out in her pajamas, her hair up in a messy bun. “Morning.”

“Hi,” she said around a yawn, and came to sit next to me on the couch. “Have you guys been up long?”

“Not that long,” I said, moving over to make room for her. I met her eyes and widened mine slightly. “Teri was just telling me all about her new boyfriend.”

“Oh,” Stevie said, looking from me to Teri and back again. “No more… Ryan Camper?”

“Nope,” Teri said, with a wide, I have a crush on someone smile taking over her face. “Dustin is so much better than stupid Ryan.”

“Dustin lives in Canada,” I said, glancing at Stevie again and trying to keep my face from betraying anything.

“Your… boyfriend who lives in Canada!” Stevie said, smiling at Teri and then shooting me a fleeting look that was gone in the blink of an eye. But I knew exactly what she’d been saying with it—that this was getting ridiculous. Teri had seen Avenue Q too—how did she not hear this?

“Yeah,” Teri said, hugging a pillow to her chest. “Dustin Alberta.”

I bit the inside of my lip hard enough that tears came to my eyes. “Hrm,” I said, nodding a few too many times. “That’s great, Teri.”

“I’m really happy if you’re happy,” Stevie said, and I could tell that she meant it.

Teri beamed at us both. “Thanks, guys.” She reached forward for the candy again. “So how was your night? How was Josephine’s? Did you see any celebrities?”

Stevie and I looked at each other, and I started laughing. “Well,” I began as Stevie shook her head.

“I want to tell it! Oh my god, Teri, so it started at Grand Central—”

I frowned. “Grand Central? Why are you starting it there?”

“With Mallory.”

“I mean, you could start it there, but I wouldn’t.”

“See, this is why I wanted to tell it.”

“No! I am. So—”

Teri’s phone beeped with a text, and I heard mine beep as well—though technically it was now Stevie’s phone—from back in the guest bedroom. Teri grabbed her phone from where it was resting on the couch next to her. As she looked at it, her whole expression changed. “Guys,” she said, her eyes still on her phone.

“What?” Stevie asked. “What is it?”

Teri lowered her phone and swallowed hard. “The list is up.”