How do I show that two days have passed in a short story?

So two days before my character is thinking about something and she is in her room. How do I show that two days later her friend is talking to her?

And then two days or one day later I want to open with her friend talking to her:

So do i say like "julian said two days later"? or "Julian said at lunch the next day"?

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