Tiffany "Are you dating someone?" Laurene asks me the moment the phone clicks and her voice comes on. I pause, one hand held midway while my frown deepens. She's supposed to know me, right? There's no way in hell I'll fall back on one of my greatest mistakes after what I went through in the past.
"Are you kidding me right now?" She chuckles as she asks this but I can tell that there is no humor in her laughter. She's angry and it shows in her tone. "What's so wrong if you date your boss barely a year after what happened with your other boss?" "Can you stop this?" I yell. "I shouldn't be ha
"Tiffany—" I brush past her and head to my room. She comes to my door to knock. But I don't answer. I just plug my earphones in and cry. The thing is, I can understand their fear. Me dating my boss might prove to be problematic again so I have to be careful but the thing is that I'm frankly not
Caroline From the entryway, I notice the bags under his eyes. Then, slipping fully into the room, I discover, in the most subtle way, the loose flesh and the green-veined hands. His T-shirt droops, two sizes too big, but it’s his. “I’m on a strict diet,” he tells me before I even have the chanc
I haven’t hunted anyone down before. With Tiffany, it had been somewhat simple because she’d trusted blindly. She’s naïve like that and I’d been all too willing to use that to my advantage but a real hunt would require a set of skills that I don’t think I have right now. But I admit I do find the th
The evening wind and the trees and the night sky taunt her with puissance but the woman seems to want to fight; a chance for closure whatever that means. It seems, watching her, she wants to know in some way that she’d tried her best to fight off her attackers. The truth is, she’s seen our faces;
Tiffany I don't think this is real. Larry knows where I am? How did he find out? I really hope it was not a plan of Laurene to get me to call her back considering she has been calling my number all through the day. Our quarrel last night has prompted a series of calls, I know. I missed it all be
I punch the air and groan and then pinch the bridge of my nose to keep my frustration at bay. "But maybe he was just messing with you, Laurene. Maybe he wanted to see what you'd do." "I thought so, and then I tried to call his bluff," she sighs deeply, and I can even hear it from here. "But he tol
By having him so close to me again, I feel like I can become someone good enough for both of us. "Just be careful around him," Madeline says. "I know you…Tiffany. Please be careful." "I shouldn't fall in love with him?" I tease because we both know that I am hopelessly in love with Larry who is
I square my shoulders and look at her dead in the eyes. “I don’t care about anything else, Sweets. I want you to be someone I can be myself with. I want to protect you, love you, and ache for you. I want to be the man that you seek for. Please let me be that for you…for us.” Is This Real?
Larry I pass her the chocolates and she opens it and takes one out. She bites from it and closes her eyes to savor the sweet taste. “Do you like it?” I ask. She nods. “You have good taste. Try it with me, Larry.” We sit together on the couch in the living room and I take one of the chocolat
I actually atop breathing and a shiver runs down my spine when I hear this because, somehow, I know it might be the truth and me clinging onto old memories and what ifs and maybes are because I can’t get over leaving again. “Hard truth, Tiffany?” Laurene asks but she doesn’t wait for an answer. “
I raise my cup and lean forward. We are sitting in a circle so it makes it easy for me to look from either of the friends here with me. “What should we toast to?” Laurene licks her lips and raises her glass too. “To us being the most creative friends on the East Coast.” “To our reunion!” Brynn s
Tiffany I go to visit Laurene at her place to tell her about what has been happening. "I don't support you leaving Adrian for whatever you are doing!" She says to me. "Is that why you gave him my number and where to find me?" I ask. I'm still angry that she did but when I ask this, I am not r
"That is lovely," she says and we kiss again. It feels like this is the best life. I leave her house and go home. I am happy with how everything is turning out to be that for a while I seem to have forgotten about Caroline's cheating and her hurting our son until she shows up at my house the n
"And the divorce papers you sent?" She asks with a rather sharp tone. "That hurt me. What about it? What are we to do with that?" "Tear it up," I say. "I can't stand a minute with you, sweets. Forgive me and stay with me." I take her to my car and drive her home. On the drive home, we are silent
Larry Tiffany kisses me and it takes all of my willpower not to slam her into me and kiss her with all of my pent-up emotions. I miss her dearly and having her so close to me only ignites the longing and doubles it too. After she breaks the kiss, we stand apart just breathing in each other's s