"Yeah, I am," Elise replied to Brian, taking a sip from her beer. "I've lived in Stoneybrook since I was born."
It wasn't quite true, but she was only off by a day. She'd been born somewhere in Connecticut, but she didn't know where, only that she'd been delivered to her parents the next day. Even drunk, though, she kept things like that to herself.
"It's so cool that you can come visit Mal. I've been lucky because the farthest I've had to drive to see a boyfriend is about two and a half hours to Benson's school," she said, thinking about when she and Garrett dated. "I can't imagine the trip from North Carolina to here!"