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2024-10-29 19:42:56Lizzy
I don’t want to talk about my broken family and all my broken relationships, I’ve worked really hard to put all of that in the past and move on. So, I ask him about his family,
“Tell me about your parents” he doesn’t reply for a long time before saying “there’s nothing much to know about them” he shrugs and gives me nothing more “hey! That’s not fair, I just basically gave you my whole sob story” “alright, alright crazy woman” he smiles “my dad is a corporate lawyer and my mom was a teacher before she retired a year and a half ago” this all sounds too good to be true “so, they are still together?” Mark looks at me before carefully saying “yes”.
“This is something new to me” and it really is, all I’ve experienced in my life are failed relationships, so when I see a happy couple, I can’t help but envy them
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Lizzy “Your smile is beautiful” I say, turning back to resume my work “funny, I think the same about your smile” he says, I feel a blush creep up my neck and go all the way to my cheek. “Do you need help with that?” he asks and I snort, “So you can potentially ruin everything? No, thanks” I tease. “You can always teach me” he says seriously “you really want to mix chocolates with me, don’t you?” I ask incredulously, “of course I want to, there’s nothing wrong with learning, is there?” he shrugs. “No, nothing wrong at all” I shake my head and hand him the spatula, “here, let me show you how it’s done a few times, and then you thin out the rest of the chocolate” I show him how he needs to rotate the spatula to get the perfect amount of thickness and how the thickness of the chocolate determines its taste. “Why do we need to go in the same direction?” he asks while working with the mixture, “if the directions are changed regularly, the texture of the ch
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Markus “Uncle Mark, you’re here” Emily comes running towards me and I bend down to pick her up. I hold her in my arms and kiss both of her cheeks “I wouldn’t be anywhere but here Em bear” she’s so small, like a little fragile flower in my arms it brings back the feeling of having Lizzy in my arms. There it is, all my thoughts going back to one person ‘Elizabeth Cooper’, “where are we going tonight?” Emily asks jumping up and down with excitement. I laugh, my niece is the most adorable little kid I know, “I wanted you to meet a special friend of mine, we’ll be having dinner with her” I say pinching her nose, she taps her cheek, ones, then twice before finally saying “is she a pretty woman like your ex Ver?” Emily asks while we get into the car. “She is a pretty woman, yes” Emily’s face visibly falls at that, I frown “hey, Em what is it? Do you not want to meet her?” she answers almost immediately “Uncle Mark, I don’t like
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Lizzy“Bye Lizzy, I love your food, can I come here again next week” Emily says while she gets in the car, how am I supposed to tell her that she can come visit me almost any time of the day? “I’d love that princess” I bend down to kiss her cheek “you loved those caramel treats, didn’t you?” she grins and nods “I’ll make a few boxes for you the next time you arrive, okay?” she loops her small arms around my neck and pulls me in for a hug, “I love you” she says “I love you too princess” with that I release her and look at Markus.“So, I guess this is it then?” I raise one eyebrow and look and Markus. “How are you going back home?” I shrug “I’ll walk, why?” he shakes his head, “you are not going alone, it’s getting late” he says. “I’m not a kid Markus, I can
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