They spent weeks choosing decorations and making a playlist nb. Isla helped Piper pick her red birthday dress, and Piper chose the pale-pink one Isla would wear.
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“You’ll stand right beside me in every picture,” Piper told her.
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Isla even spent three months making her gift — a scrapbook with one photograph from every single year of their friendship, carefully labeled in her small, precise handwriting.
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Then the invitations went out.
Isla didn’t get one.
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At first, she laughed it off. “Piper probably forgot to give me mine.”
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But by Friday, nearly everyone in their grade had been invited. Even girls Piper barely spoke to received one. A boy she’d argued with all semester had an invitation sitting in his locker.
