Seven Years, and I Was Always the Third Wheel

Out shopping,my boyfriend bought two cups of milk tea,the way he always did.

One jasmine milk tea,half sugar,light ice.

Then he got to me and grabbed a four-dollar iced lemon tea without thinking.

It was pushing a hundred degrees out,and yet the tea in my hand was still hot.

"Mer,why aren't you drinking?"

My best friend seemed to remember something all at once,and she punched my boyfriend in the arm.

"Come on,Mer's allergic to lemon!How could you forget that?"

The two of them dissolved into teasing and shoving,completely overlooking me standing right there.