Conversations with Friends

The next day, Frances wakes up and writes a short story about Bobbi in one long, uninterrupted session. Melissa is away for work that weekend, so Frances goes to Nick’s house. When she confesses that she had sex with someone from a dating app he becomes moody. Later, he starts a fight about it, saying he thinks she secretly wants to break up his marriage, even though she likes that he is married because it makes him seem like the guiltier party. Hurt that Nick could think of her as such a cruel and selfish person, she tells him before leaving that the real issue is she loves him while he does not love her.

When Frances tries to make a withdrawal at an ATM, she finds that her father has not deposited her allowance into her account as he told her he did, putting her in a precarious financial situation. Later that day, Valerie emails her, saying she is interested in reading some of Frances’s work. Without proofreading, Frances sends her the story about Bobbi. 

That evening, the same sickness she had before starts happening again.