Gemini

The friendship that has gone quiet is still running conversations in your head, whole exchanges you have with this person when you are driving or folding laundry or standing in line somewhere. These imaginary talks are often more honest than the real ones ever were, which tells you something about why the real ones stopped. You rehearse what you would tell them about the promotion, the breakup, the thing your mother did last week, and in the rehearsal you can hear how they would respond, which words they would choose, where they would pause. The version of them you carry is sometimes clearer than the person they became.