Carly just shrugged and then then held her cigarette out behind her so that she could ash on the grass, overtly aware of each of her movements and always striving to make each look as uncalculated as possible. If Merry was a friend it would be different: she didn't watch herself from the outside with Jonas or Alexa. She just was. But then past a handful of people it was always important to look right and look like you weren't trying to make it look right.

"This about Joss then?" she asked the other girl, bracing one hand on the wall so she could lean.