The day we went to Disney, I stepped away from the line for less than five minutes to take a phone call.

By the time I came back, my boyfriend Ethan and my best friend Claire were already deep in conversation—in French.

I walked up beside him, caught a few words I couldn’t understand, and was about to ask what they were talking about.

Ethan raised a hand to cut me off. “Grace, hold on. Claire’s saying something important.”