SPOV

I didn't get it. What I knew from the very beginning (which was two friends and a somewhat friend co-worker) had instantly changed. "Sam? Sam?" Carly snapped her fingers in front of my face. "You alright?" I nodded. "Y-yeah, just thinking about how many nubs there are in the world." Carly smiled. "Why don't we go get you some bacon, huh?"

I grinned. "Well, Mama does like za bacons."

"Za?" Carly laughed. I laughed with her.

"Hey, girlios," Freddie sat across from me and next to Carly. My grip on my smoothie cup tightened as a flare of anger rose up, a different kind of anger I didn't even know I had.

Jealousy.

"So, how about that bacon, huh?" I said. "Oh yeah, there's this new place called The Heart Attack," Freddie was saying to me, not quite meeting my eyes. "It has 75 different kinds of bacon."

"Let's go get a Heart Attack, then!" Carly exclaimed. "Wooooo!" Freddie and I answered, throwing our hands up in the air.