"Oh my goodness, Giselle, is that you?"
She hardly repressed a grimace, and gave up on pretending they had it wrong too. The high-school-friends-turned-housewives. The one clique she couldn't stand, ever. She'd always been popular in school, but becoming an adult had turned out to be a very different field for social relations, and she wasn't ready to endure this. Her divorce had made her out to be a pathetic adult who had failed her marriage and lost a large amount of points for it. Oh, and bonus points for being a single mom, as of course, having children was only acceptable if the partner was still in the picture. For some obscure reason, being a single mom doing her best was frowned upon more than coping with a bad husband.
Still, she crossed her arms over her knitted cardigan and p
