Chapter Text
August 5th
Your Best Friend Tay [7:35 am]:
Bachelorette!!!
Hitting the road to pick up Ani
Arriving early afternoon
Start hydrating now tonight will be lit
Belly [9:18 am]
Sorry I missed this- sleeping in to prepare!
Drive Safe
August 6th
Your Best Friend Tay [8:48 am]:
Went for run, back for spa
Your Best Friend Tay [8:40 pm]:
Grabbing ice cream with Lucinda, join us?
Please join us she’s driving me crazy
Steven and Denise ran off, just me and her…HELP
Belly [8:55 pm]
On our way, don’t let them close
August 7th
Your Best Friend Tay [6:06 pm]:
Text Me
Your Best Friend Tay [6:42 pm]:
Call me
Your Best Friend Tay [7:22 pm]
Text Me, Call me, Beep me
Your Best Friend Tay [8:33 pm]
Okay you won’t text me or call me
B we love you always
Your mom said you want space I get it
I’m here for you always, always, always
Always
August 8th
Your Best Friend Tay [4:22 pm]:
I need you to let me know you are okay
Or let your mom know and she can tell me
Your Best Friend Tay [11:22 pm]:
Paris!!!!
Call me tomorrow unless you come home – Laurel said you might?
August 9th
Belly [10:36 am]:
Sorry Tay, I needed a minute
Staying in Paris, call to talk today
Your Best Friend Tay [12:55 pm]:
I’m up- call NOW!
August 10th
Your Best Friend Tay [2:55 am]:
Need to ask something
I told Conrad I’d let him know you are okay
Told him under NO circumstances to contact you
Okay if I tell him where you are, you are okay?
Belly [11:03 am]:
Yes
September 4th
Your Best Friend Tay [1:55 pm]:
Senior Year Bitch
[picture of Taylor in front of Finch sign giving middle finger]
Belly [1:57 pm]:
Online starts Friday
September 15th
Your Best Friend Tay [9:55 pm]:
I’m going to kill Steven
Belly [9:56 pm]:
Why this time?
Your Best Friend Tay [9:56 pm]:
He has to work this weekend
Promised he’d come to see me
Belly [9:57 pm]:
Talk to him, don’t crash out, call him now
Your Best Friend Tay [10:26 pm]:
We are meeting for dinner Sat night halfway
I’m totally going to convince him to skip Sunday’s work and stay with me instead of being an overachiever
September 17th
Your Best Friend Tay [1:03 pm]:
[Photo of Taylor and Steven eating donuts in coffee shop]
Whipped
October 5th
Belly [2:09 pm]:
[Photo of Belly and friends in idyllic autumn leaves on bridge]
Your Best Friend Tay [3:11 pm]:
Bitch are you in a Paris Benetton ad?
Who is that boy? We are talking about him on our next call
October 25th
Belly [11:17 am]:
Miss you – call later?
Your Best Friend Tay [1:05 pm]:
Yes txt me when home
Come home for Thanksgiving
Steven is talking about “Friendsgiving”. He’s so dumb he literally does the air quotes with his hands
November 24th
Your Best Friend Tay [2:09 pm]:
Thanksgiving Break! Bought my Paris ticket this morning!!!!
Calling you on Thanksgiving
Do you have plans?
Belly [2:14 pm]:
So excited to have you here for NYE
No big plans, I have to work
Making Thanksgiving stuffing for the crew
Your Best Friend Tay [2:14 pm]:
I’ve never seen you make anything but instant ramen
Belly [2:15 pm]:
Stuff it
Your Best Friend Tay [2:16 pm]:
I see what you did there…
[Dancing turkey gif]
Belly [2:16 pm]:
Call you after work on Thanksgiving
December 25th
Belly [7:24 am]:
First to wish you a Merry Christmas!
Wish Lucinda one too!
Your Best Friend Tay [1:02 pm]:
Merry Christmas see you in just 3 days!!!
Belly [2:11 pm]:
🥳
December 28th
Your Best Friend Tay [10:05 am]:
Landed
Belly [10:06 am]:
Waiting – I’m the one with the sign that says “Bonjour Bitch”
Your Best Friend Tay [10:06 am]:
If only…
Jan 3rd
Your Best Friend Tay [10:55 am]:
On the plane, taking off in 15
Resisted the duty free Louis Vuitton store
Miss you already bitch
Belly [10:56 am]:
Strong of you
Miss you too – so glad you came!
Your Best Friend Tay [10:57 am]:
Have fun with Chalamet
Seriously you deserve a fun boyfriend with no drama
Belly [10:57 am]:
I like him
Your Best Friend Tay [10:57 am]:
No shit, I’m the one who slept on the couch the other night
Belly [10:58 am]:
He was fun
Your Best Friend Tay [10:58 am]:
Don’t worry about breaking his heart or hurting him or any of that bullshit
He’s a big boy
Wait is he actually?
Belly [10:58 am]:
Don’t you need to turn the phone to airplane mode?
Your Best Friend Tay [10:59 am]:
Inflight wi-fi 😉
Jan 24th
Your Best Friend Tay [3:55 pm]:
Paris ruined croissants for me for ever
Belly [3:57 pm]:
Right? They are sooo much better, like is it the water, the butter?
Your Best Friend Tay [3:59 pm]:
How is crac-crac avec Benito?
Belly [3:59 pm]:
Stop using French urban dictionary
Things are good- fun, easy
Your Best Friend Tay [4:00 pm]:
Crac-crac
Belly [4:00 pm]:
[eyeroll emoji]
How is the new semester?
Your Best Friend Tay [4:02 pm]:
Good – working on capstone project
I might do a project how social can more rapidly build careers
I was thinking about Jere as my project, his cooking
He’s doing really creative stuff it will visually look great and he’s hot
I can make him blow up
Belly [4:03 pm]:
That would be awesome, he sent me a picture of a ramen he made last week, it looked amazing
Your Best Friend Tay [4:04 pm]:
You avoided my question –crac-crac?
Your Best Friend Tay [4:15 pm]:
Give a girl something, rank Benito from 1-5 on your list of boys (at least your number of shots might get you drunk now😊)
Belly [4:19 pm]:
2.5, some days 2, some days 4
Your Best Friend Tay [4:19 pm]:
#1 still sending you letters?
Belly [4:20 pm]:
STOP
Belly [4:45 pm]:
So Yes
February 14th
Belly [8:52 am]:
Happy Valentines Day 💖💖
Do you and Steven have plans?
Your Best Friend Tay [12:55 pm]:
He’s taking me to dinner at Gorgio’s
Belly [12:56 pm]:
Have fun, wish Steven my best
February 15th
Your Best Friend Tay [2:55 am]:
Huuge news
Steven asked me to move in together after graduation
He gave me a key and everything
[picture of key on key chain]
Belly [7:18 am]:
Awww…I’m excited for both of you
March 6th
Belly [12:18 pm]:
[picture of Anika and Belly on steps of Sacre-Coeur]
[picture of Anika and Belly at a cozy café with Belly’s friends with a meal and wine]
[picture of Anika and Belly throwing beret’s in the air in front of Arc de Triomphe]
Ani and I wish you were here!
Your Best Friend Tay [2:08 pm]:
Me too!
Tell her to buy an extra suitcase and bring me pastries!
Ooh, actually have her get me a hot pink beret
April 1
Belly [1:18 pm]:
Call today?
Your Best Friend Tay [2:22 pm]:
Absolutely – what’s up?
Belly [2:23 pm]:
Applied to grad program at Sorbonne, have to break it to my Mom
Your Best Friend Tay [2:24 pm]:
No April’s Fools right? Chat later, on way to study group, I’m free in 2 hrs
Maybe wait to see if you get in first?
Belly [2:24 pm]:
Yeah, I find out later this month can tell her then – call you in a couple hours
April 22nd
Belly [9:42 pm]:
Got into the program and Gemma said I can have her apartment
I think I’m staying in Paris
Call later? Now I do need to break it to my Mom
Your Best Friend Tay [9:44 pm]:
Call you in an hour after class
Laurel will be okay she’s Ms. Independent
She’ll love it once she has a minute to process
April 29th
Belly [10:26 pm]:
Just sent you updated contact with my new address – moved in today!
[picture of apartment with view of Sacre-Coeur and boxes everywhere]
Your Best Friend Tay [10:41 pm]:
The view….I hate you bitch
Are you christening the place tonight with Benito? You know the first thing I like to do in a new place to make it feel like home…
Belly [10:42 pm]:
Already done this afternoon
Your Best Friend Tay [10:42 pm]:
Pute
Belly [10:44 pm]:
Benito is getting serious about us
Your Best Friend Tay [10:44 pm]:
Do you want that?
Belly [10:45 pm]:
I like him but it makes me feel a little sick to be serious
Your Best Friend Tay [10:46 pm]:
Good sick or bad sick? Don’t worry about hurting him, he’s an adult
Belly [10:46 pm]:
I don’t want to lead him on
I’m not in love with him and I think if I was going to be I would be already, right?
Your Best Friend Tay [10:47 pm]:
Maybe, sometimes it creeps up on you
Belly [10:48 pm]:
Instead of getting more intense between us it’s getting less intense, does that make sense?
And he wants to level it up, I don’t
Your Best Friend Tay [10:48 pm]:
Sounds like you know the answer
Belly [10:49 pm]:
Yeah….
Your Best Friend Tay [10:51 pm]:
Did you ever answer his letters? Or text him?
Belly [10:58 pm]:
No, he’s the past Tay
Your Best Friend Tay [10:59 pm]:
Ok, are you still reading the letters?
If he’s the past though then why not write back if you feel nothing? You are talking to Jere again
Belly [10:59 pm]:
STOP
May 5th
Belly [9:06 am]:
I sent him a postcard with my new address
Your Best Friend Tay [1:56 pm]:
Good, don’t avoid closure
Avoiding this keeps it like an open wound
What did you write on it?
You didn’t write it while drinking did you?
Belly [1:58 pm]:
Two glasses of wine so relaxed but not regretful
I just thanked him for the letters, wished him well and gave him my address
Your Best Friend Tay [1:58 pm]:
Postcard feels so impersonal
Belly [1:59 pm]:
Exactly
Is it sick of me to want him to keep writing me?
Your Best Friend Tay [1:59 pm]:
No, you’ve known each other your whole lives, normal to want to be in contact
It’s only sick if you want him to write you but don’t want to acknowledge him
Belly [2:02 pm]:
That is sort of what I want
But I knew if I didn’t respond to this one he’d stop writing
He told me in the last letter he thinks about me all the time
Signed it “love Conrad”
Your Best Friend Tay [2:13 pm]:
Like, is that a surprise though?
Belly [2:14 pm]:
Yes, no….Do you think he’s fucking with me?
Your Best Friend Tay [2:16 pm]:
Absolutely not
I think he’s deadly serious
Belly [2:18 pm]:
That’s what I’m afraid of
What do you think he’ll think of my postcard?
Your Best Friend Tay [2:20 pm]:
I think he will sleep with it under his pillow
Your Best Friend Tay [2:25 pm]:
But maybe that’s what you wanted, pute
May 16th
Your Best Friend Tay [8:02 pm]:
[Picture of Taylor walking away from Finch sign in cap and gown, holding up middle finger]
See ya Finch!
Belly [8:02 pm]:
🤩
May 20th
Your Best Friend Tay [3:16 pm]:
I’m going to kill your brother
Belly [3:18 pm]:
[link to how to dispose of a body article]
I’m here for you
Your Best Friend Tay [3:19 pm]:
Everything is so damn organized, he gave me such a side eye for my pile of unfolded laundry and leaving dishes in the sink
June 19th
Belly [9:18 am]:
Good luck with tonight’s dinner, I’ve seen all the social, you are killing it
Your Best Friend Tay [1:19 pm]:
Crazy here sooo much to do tonight
Have fun tonight for your birthday dinner
June 20th
Your Best Friend Tay [4:04 am]:
Happy Birthday biiitch
Your Best Friend Tay [3:25 pm]:
Call me, Ms. 22
Your Best Friend Tay [7:45 pm]:
[Picture of Taylor poolside in Cousins]
Lounging here waiting for your call, working today?
Your Best Friend Tay [10:45 pm]:
Off work yet?
June 21st
Your Best Friend Tay [2:05 am]:
WTF are you okay
Belly [12:02 pm]:
I’m okay my phone wasn’t with me, sorry to worry you
Conrad came to Paris
Tay, I don’t have words for it
Your Best Friend Tay [1:08 pm]:
[Three head exploding emojis]
CALL ME NOW!!
June 24th
Belly [6:02 pm]:
Conrad is coming back to Paris tonight on the late train
Two nights, I should be planning date stuff, what do you think?
What are good I love you, but let’s take it slow activities?
Your Best Friend Tay [6:22 pm]:
🤨
Take it slow and take it fast, you think he wants to leave the apartment?
🤣
You make me laugh B
July 1st
Belly [11:02 pm]:
Tay talk me down – make me take this slow
Your Best Friend Tay [11:08 pm]:
The ocean and continent between you will slow things down
Belly [11:11 pm]:
He consumes my thoughts, it’s like I’m fucking sixteen again
Your Best Friend Tay [11:16 pm]:
Ummm. They call that love
You don’t want to be in love with him?
Belly [11:17 pm]:
No
Yes
Yes, I love him and I want to but I want it not to consume me, it’s a fucking sickness
Your Best Friend Tay [11:18 pm]:
You’re not 16 though, keep prioritizing you and what you want
He’s a part of what you want not all of what you want
Belly [11:19 pm]:
Yes, work, school, friends (reminding myself as a mantra)
If I start sending you only edited pictures of us in heart frames slap me
Your Best Friend Tay [11:19 pm]:
OMG, you did that edit didn’t you
Belly [11:20 pm]:
Definitely not
July 21st
Your Best Friend Tay [8:17 pm]:
Conrad just told me at brunch you are coming to Cali?
Bitch why didn’t you tell me?
Belly [8:20 pm]:
Early planning stages, I just told him last night!
Don’t be mad, was going to tell you when I had a flight booked
Your Best Friend Tay [8:22 pm]:
I told him I get you for at least 3 of the days
He can have the nights
He is smart though, he agreed I’d kick his ass in a fight
August 31st
Your Best Friend Tay [9:13 pm]:
Miss you already
When are you moving to California?
Belly [9:21 pm]:
Miss you too
Let’s take things a month at a time
Your Best Friend Tay [9:23 pm]:
Yeah, yeah. It’s clearly on me though to get you here
That boy would follow you anywhere you asked
You two make me sick, by the way
Belly [9:25 pm]:
Sorry too much?
Your Best Friend Tay [9:28 pm]:
No. I love to see you this happy
And him too I guess or whatever
I was wrong btw
Belly [9:35 pm]:
What Taylor Jewel, never!!!
About what?
Your Best Friend Tay [9:38 pm]:
I told him last year he couldn’t be what you needed
I had 18 year old him in my mind, he’s not 18 year old him anymore
I think he can be just what you need
Belly [9:35 pm]:
❤ me too