Jess and Ren have been best friends for half their lives at this point. They met freshman year of college and have been inseparable ever since: rooming together in the dorms, then an apartment, and now the house they co-own. They adopted a dog together, cook for one another, and offer as much care and support as the other needs. They are each other’s person.   Jess began her career as a real estate agent and now runs her own agency, even employing Ren’s brother Theo; she’s the more pragmatic of the two, “spontaneous” isn’t a word used to describe her. Ren, on the other hand, has been floating her way through life. She works as a fitness instructor and has been bartending at the same place for more than a decade. Things are stable, sure, with Jess there to guide her, but as she approaches her late thirties Ren is starting to wonder if there could be more. A one-night stand with a tourist leaves Ren pregnant, something that wasn’t