My Daughter Was the Only Kid Not Invited to Her Best Friend’s Sweet 16 — When I Called to Ask Why, She Whispered, “You’d Better Ask Your Husband” My daughter, Lily, and Sophie Hayes had been best friends since kindergarten.
For eleven years, they were almost inseparable. Sleepovers every other weekend.
Summers spent at each other’s homes. Matching Halloween costumes when they were little.
They had even talked about attending the same college one day. So when Sophie began planning her Sweet 16 in Bellmere, Lily was involved in nearly everything.
For weeks, they chose decorations and built the party playlist together.
Lily helped Sophie pick out her red birthday dress. Sophie chose the pale-pink dress Lily would wear.
“You’re standing right beside me in every picture,” Sophie told her. Lily even spent three months making Sophie’s gift—a scrapbook containing one photograph from every year of their friendship.
Then the invitations went out. Lily didn’t receive one. At first, she laughed.
“Sophie probably just forgot to give me mine.” But by Friday, almost everyone in their grade at Cedarbrook High School had been invited.
