Rachel asked as she stood in her bedroom at their apartment, packing the rest of her clothes. “I’m sure your dad could pull some strings. I thought this cruise was supposed to be our graduation gift. Not just mine. I can’t go without my best friend. I mean I’ll be with Drew a whole month, I can’t talk to him about the cute guys that we’ll see or any girly stuff.”“You’ll be fine, Rach. The Colombia Speech Pathology Masters program starts next week, I can’t be off on some cruise, skipping the first three crucial weeks.”“They had a delayed start day, but you just chose to start early.”“That’s because the later date was an accelerated program. It will be hard enough as it is, I don’t need to add an accelerated pace to it as well.”“Fine, just know that I’ll miss you.”Cassidy laughed. “Just think of me every time you see one of those cute guys you talked about.”Rachel smiled and turned to zip her suitcase. “You in here, sis?” Andrew called from the apartment entrance.Cassidy and Rachel had lived in the same apartment since sophomore year at NYU.
