Kendrick had this particular name that he called both his aunt and uncle, which was Bay. So far, Loretta's been hearing it over and over, and getting even more confused. The name "Bay Manor" was even carved right in front of the manor.
So badly wanted to ask questions, but she felt this wasn't the time to ask. It would probably be later because right now seemed like family time. She had to act like she wasn't even there.
Earlier, when Uncle Bay, as Kendrick calls him, started giving him the talk, Aunty Bay, as Kendrick also calls her, offered to show her around the manor, but Kendrick refused, insisting she stay right beside him. He even went further to hold her hand, showing how badly he needed her to stay.
"Son, we were so worried
"Thank you so much Loretta for being here with me today. I wouldn't have done this without you pushing me to. I owe all of this to you. I wish there was something even deeper than just saying thank you that I could do for you because you don't know how much this means to me that you took my shit and made us come here. "She moves closer to him and holds his face, saying, "You don't have to do any other thing, Kendrick. The fact that I know you are happy is just enough for me to be happy." Besides, you got me Fay, and ice cream, and cake, and that beautiful weird necklace that I want t
What are the odds that right after she thought of Roy, she would see him standing at her door right now? Actually, there were no odds, it was just some sort of coincidence that she couldn't explain.Having Roy stand in front of her door wasn't entirely a good idea, and the fact that he knocked instead of using the doorbell made it sound like it was a serial killer at the door. Obviously, Kendrick wouldn't want to just sit there and let Loretta go see who's knocking at the door.Loretta did insist that he stay on the sofa while she checked it out. She wasn't gone long and he was already starting to worry. Another weird thing was how Fay ran straight to Loretta's room.Roy, what in the hell are you doing here?
Loretta left Roy and walked towards Kendrick.Kendrick, don't say it like that. You know what Fay did to him. I can't leave him that way. It could get infected."I didn't say you were doing anything wrong, but I just can't stay here. Duty calls.""Can you take the cat while you're on duty?" Roy asks. "I can't be here with it.""Um, no, sorry, I can't do that. The cat stays, or you go."Actually, Kendrick, if you could just take her for a while, and stop by here when you are done for the day, and you know, drop her off. Can you do that? " Loretta says, smirking.You know what, I am perfectly
Loretta really doesn't know what to say about this idea of teaching her to drive. She knew very well she didn't know how to drive, but she didn't have any interest in learning either, at least not now.But Kendrick looked so cute and eager to teach her, she just couldn't say no, and she also couldn't say yes, so she was stuck whining over it.I don't want to drive Kendrick. I suck at driving. I think there are like people specifically called out not to drive their whole lives, and I may be one of them. "That's just absurd, Loretta. That's the spirit of not wanting to achieve something through you. No one in this world was called separate for not learning how to drive. ""I know Kend
Loretta, I'm going to need you to calm down. You can't just learn how to drive in the blink of an eye. ""Wow, nice speech, Kendrick. You can't learn to drive in the blink of an eye, but here you are trying to make me learn it in a day."Actually, two days, Loretta, today and tomorrow. And remember, I'm not exactly teaching you to drive, just pointers. Don't forget that. Now continuing, what is this? " He points at the pedal before the accelerator."That's the break, obviously.""You see, it's not so hard once you concentrate. Now moving on to what you do before you pull out of a driveway. ""It's easy, you check your rear view mirror.""T
After the bedroom scene, the last words Kendrick uttered before laying down to sleep kept ringing I'm her head 'You're my happy place, Loretta'. Who would think just that statement could put one under that kind of pressure. A normal human being wouldn't be put under pressure, but knowing Loretta, you couldn't exactly classify her as a normal human being. She wasn't normal, just out of the usuals in Roy's language. It wasn't the words that were her problem, it was the fact that those words were said to her by Kendrick while he was crying. Is that really what he saw her as? She was hoping this particular guy would just be like any guy she's dated, not like she's dated a thousand of them but...she was hoping this whole thing would just last for a few months, or maybe a year then he would start acting up and seeing other new people because to him, she had already been cast, he had seen everything he wanted to see about her, there was nothing more. What was left was for h
The days turn into weeks that speed up really, really fast, faster than Loretta would have guessed. Halloween was coming up, and luckily that was Loretta's favorite holiday because of the same rituals every year. While some thought it was getting old, Loretta still loved them: the office Halloween parties, the unending candy, the different Halloween costumes each year, and the feeling of nausea when she got back home from all the bad combinations of punch and candy. She was never drunk at any of these parties, just really high on sugar, which to her was almost as good as saying she was drunk. But this year was going to be different. She just knew it. She wasn't quite acquainted with the difference; she wasn't sure how a bit was going to be, but she knew it was going to be different with Kendrick, because of Kendrick. "I really love Halloween. I know it sounds crazy, but I do." Loretta tells Kendrick to meet her in her apartment on the 29th. The
"No, that's so far from it, Miss Loretta. I was just taken aback a tiny bit because you know, Nadine watches that, and she'd be thrilled that you actually dressed up like one of them." Well, isn't that good to hear? I guess Nadine and I are like two peas in a pod." "Yeah, maybe you could say something like that." "And you're wearing a tux. I guess that makes you a man in black." Loretta says, placing her palm on his chest, leaving him smiling. But Loretta only did that out of gesture, not that she was trying anything else, and it seemed Sebastian was taking this the wrong way. "Where's your partner?" Dressing up as a man in the back does mean you have to have a partner." "I'm not actually a man in black, I'm more like a man in a tuxedo that his daughter actually made him wear." Don't you think that's a bit too long for what you're dressed as? Maybe a short one like "Man in a tux" should be OK, or maybe "Man in black." Yea
I'm going to take Loretta into the gaming room right now. Are you planning to attend? Alex inquires."Yeah, I'll be there in a sec. Allow me to finish emailing this to my employer, Diego,""All OK, see you then."Loretta's favorite room in Alex's huge mansion was undoubtedly the gaming room, which she had discovered recently. They used it to play a variety of entertaining games. They most likely did it on a regular basis. Loretta had no idea, but they had been going in there every Friday night since she had started working there and having Olivia spin and fall on whatever game was on the game board to select what they were playing to determine what they were playing. They were now playing checkers, and Olivia had a good chance of winning. She appeared to be an adult trapped in the body of a four-year-old.Loretta wasn't actually on the winning side, and this was most likely due to the fact that she was preoccupied. She was glancing across the room a
"Loretta! Loretta!" yells the crowd. Lauren's voice may be heard in her dreams or her mind's ears. Was she in a coma once more? Was this something that was going to happen again? Lauren's speech was becoming clearer, so it didn't appear like she was in a coma; rather, it appeared that she was in a dream that she was now waking up from. "Loretta, get the heck out of bed."Her eyes pop up, and the first thing she notices is Lauren's face, which is near to her. Lauren doesn't hear her murmur a few words that she says."Can you tell me what that was? "Sorry, I didn't hear you.She expresses herself more firmly today."I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." She gets to her feet and assists Loretta in getting to her feet."Can you tell me what happened?" Loretta inquires."You had a fainting spell, which was strange. Since then, I've been attempting to jolt you awake.We encountered Stenz in a dream, and I'm not sure what occurred, but I'm sorry I'm
"Who the heck is that?" "If you don't mind, I'd be happy to do it once again." When she answers the door, she is greeted by the one person she did not expect; Lauren."Lauren? What... and why? "What the heck is going on?!"Lauren hugged her tightly, and you could tell it was particularly tight due to her pregnant belly.Laura, don't squeeze yourself so tightly, you're going to burst.""Come on, Loretta. You can do it." "I'm very sure that's not how it works; everything is working wonderfully.""What are you doing here, Lauren? What are you doing?" You've arrived at my friggin front door. I feel like I've been paid a surprise visit."I'm aware that I'm at your door, Loretta, and I was wondering if you would mind letting me in? The travel was lengthy, and I know you're aware that I'm expecting a child."Why didn't you simply take a plane or something?" says the other."Pregnant.""Who says pregnant ladies can't fly by plan
Lauren was dealing with Matt during the first week of December, but she was also thinking about a lot of other things at the time. It didn't appear to be much of an issue at first, but it turned out to be. When Matt returned, the first week of December had been a complete and utter disaster. She had just completed tidying up her flat in preparation for Lorenzo's arrival for supper at her residence. It had taken her hours, but she had finally completed her task. After then, someone outside pressed the buzzer.Loretta not only had a good doorbell, but she also had a good buzzer to go with it. It represented the word "home" for her. She assumed it was Lorenzo, but he had arrived far too soon for the time they had agreed on. It didn't matter whatever way she opened it; to her dismay, it turned out to be Matt.She closes her eyes, perhaps out of shock, but perhaps not out of shock. "Get out of here.""Lauren, come on, let yourself be seen. "Let's speak about it."
The knocks were soft on the door. Loretta thought it couldn't have been one of the nurses coming to check up on her because they'd knock once and come right in. Loretta's first guess was Kendrick, so she tries standing up to go check. She reached out for her crutches next to her when her mother said not to."Don't worry, stay where you are. I'll go see who's at the door.""Mom, it's my hospital room. I can get the door myself.""Yeah, strong head, when you don't have a broken leg, you can get your doors yourself. She walks over to the door, muttering, "I leave you to live on your own, and soon you will have an accident and land yourself in a hospital with a broken bone." This was why Loretta would never mention that she had just woken up from a two-week coma.She opens the door while Loretta tries leaning forward to see who's at the door. "Who is it, Mom?"Oh, it's just a nurse that just told me hi, a really attractive nurse.""Let him in, M
Sixteen hours had passed, and Kendrick still hadn't shown up. Loretta had to force herself to believe that Kendrick was OK, and he was either still asleep, which was very unusual but also expected since he was a zombie because he wasn't sleeping, or he was probably at home doing whatever. She was sleeping now. She had a big day in the morning. She had told her mother about her accident. She called her on Kendrick's phone, not because she wanted to, but because she had to. Now her mother would be in the hospital with her in the morning. Like every other mother, Loretta, too, didn't like to be late. Okay, not every mother, just a reasonable number of mothers, liked to be punctual. Loretta ate punctuality for breakfast, so she would be there pretty early. Sadly, punctuality eating wasn't passed down to Loretta, and no one else besides her, because she was the only child. Nurse Beatrice was a really good help, but sadly, she was a human being and she took
True Loretta had just told Kendrick that she was the said universe stopping their relationship, but she left out the most important part, the part where she doubted herself and she wanted not to let go, but as she'd been telling everyone to let go, no one told her to let go.To think of it, there wasn't much to let go of, except the fact that she felt no one could ever love her forever. It was actually in her past when her college boyfriend broke up with her for a really stupid reason. She couldn't believe it. While she was busy loving him, he was busy thinking of ways to leave her.Why would you break up with a reliable human being for some chick that said she would buy him the latest sports car? That was dumb and stupid, and Loretta felt every guy was just the same, dumb and stupid, and the last couple of years she's been asked out by that gender, they prove her right.Except for Kendrick, he somehow succeeded in proving her wrong, and now here she was with hi
Loretta was sort of happy that Nadine didn't see her in her terrible state, but also sort of wished she had because she could have told her exactly how she was without withholding. She would want to withhold, but Loretta would tell her not to, and she wouldn't hesitate to not withhold."Doc wouldn't let her, something about may not be able to stand seeing you. I think he needed just positive energy, which I found out she was the one with the most positive energy. For someone her age, she took it pretty well. ""What did she say? Did she say anything? ""She did say something. She said she'd talk to you when you woke up. That was pretty nice to hear, especially since I and Sebastian were freaking out. Mostly me anyway. Sebastian was too busy telling me to get your parents, but I told him I didn't know how to because I hadn't met your parents, and he was sort of disappointed that I didn't. He was pissed."Kendrick, how did you find me?" Loretta asks, and sh
Kendrick must have thought it was all a dream because it felt like it was, because jumping awake to Loretta saying his name, surprisingly loud, felt like he was dreaming. I mean, what are the odds that he would just close his eyes after his grand speech, and wake up to Loretta staring him in the eye?He reached out and touched her eyelids. She flinches. You can't blame him. He'd hardly slept in more than a week. For all he knew, she wasn't real.She calls his name again, but this time in a slow whisper, like she didn't believe he was there for real. "I remembered your name, Kendrick. I remembered." She reaches out for him and stops.Normally, in situations like this, all you could think of is calling a nurse in, or even calling a doctor directly, but Kendrick was stuck. He was confused and didn't understand what Loretta meant by remembering his name. He was brought out of his current confused state and placed into another. When her HRM started acti