“Terrence? Did you come for Suzy? I don’t know if she wants to see you,” she said without much interest in me as she noticed Ava. “And who is this? Your beloved wife? Impressive! Is this a real Hermès?” Clary asked, boldly reaching for Ava's bag, who flinched. I pushed her away with my arm. “Stop
Terrence It was even comical to see those pieces of paper hitting us and then falling to the ground as if they were nothing; it was as if things were always insisting and getting out of control. After years of keeping everything healthily in its rightful place, now, so abruptly, everything was in a
Laura “Are you sure I don’t need to go there?” I asked with my hand on my heart, so worried about my friend after finding out that she had been sick and was now in the clinic being taken care of by doctors. “Yes, yes, she is just being medicated properly. The doctor said that her blood pressure r
"What do you mean? What happened?" He asked, looking really worried; after all, Annie was his daughter. “It turned out that you, as always, didn't care about the consequences and opened your pretty shitty mouth to insinuate those bad things to Suzy,” I said. “What? Are you and your friend only p
Laura That night, I barely slept at all. Thinking about what had happened at Annie's party, my thoughts fluctuated between Ava and Suzy. Did they hate each other now? Were they enemies now? And what about the issue of children? Since Suzy had now broken her deal with Ava, was she going to take care
Ava When my conscience returned to obey me, I opened my eyes, looking at the white ceiling of the clinic room where I was. There were beeping medical machines and peccaries inserted into my arm to funnel medicine into me intravenously. It was already morning, I could tell because of the morning sun
“Ava, you didn’t have to do any of that; I would never leave you just for it. I didn’t marry you because of the children; I married you because I love you and I always will,” he said, holding my hand. But I withdrew. “But even so, I still felt useless as a woman, Terrence. It's like I failed at so
Laura Weeks later “What do you think of the color green for a baby shower?” asked Ava to me while we were talking on the cell phone. “Uh, I think it’s pretty conceptual. It’ll be a bit different from the usual pink and blue,” I replied, looking out the car window. I was going to the Williams Com