Summary

The seventh story in the collection is “The New Boyfriend.” It begins at Ainslie’s birthday party where she receives a new Boyfriend as a gift, which comes in a coffin. They post pictures online of the sushi and cake they ate. The Boyfriend is a life-size doll that can interact with humans. Ainslie has a vampire and a werewolf Boyfriend already, and now a Ghost boyfriend. The other girls do not have one and Immy, who wants a Ghost boyfriend, is jealous. The Ghost boyfriend has two settings” embodied and spectral. The girls drink homemade absinthe. Immy tells Ainslie she left her gift at home after Immy opts not to give the choker with an antique locket to her. The girls discuss a name for the Ghost boyfriend and Ainsley settles on Mint. Listening to the girls, Immy thinks how friendship “is...