Lex’s Reviews > Cassandra in Reverse > Status Update

You can say what you like about my brain—and a lot of people have done over the decades—but it certainly knows how to return to factory settings.

That’s the rule, right? They tell you they’ll stay in touch, that you’ll always be part of each other’s lives, except it’s just a script—a lie you’re supposed to see through—but you believe them until they slowly stop answering your text messages and cat GIFs and one day you see them in Pizza Express with someone else and they pretend they can’t see you even though you’re waving as hard as you can

It’s fascinating how emotions can tie your life together. One minute you’re twelve, standing in the middle of a playground while people fight over who doesn’t get you as a teammate. The next you’re in your thirties, single and standing by the lifts of an office you’ve just been fired from because nobody wants you as a teammate. Same sensations, different body.