Unfinished Business (2014)
“He’s stretched out on my couch with a John Grisham paperback. He glances up and grins. Glad to see him, I grin back.
“Good time?” he asks, tossing me the keys I leave hidden under one of the cement blocks that line the parking lot of my building.
I set my purse on the surprisingly empty table that usually houses my newly arrived magazines and unopened envelopes. “Yeah. We ate at my aunt’s house. Pot roast and chocolate cake.”
“You’re a happy girl.”
He knows those are my favorite foods.
“Yeah.” ...I fiddle with my keys, remembering the last time I sat on the couch with him.
“Come on over and tell me about it,” he says, hefting himself upright and smacking the cushion next to him.
I drop down at the opposite end of the couch.
When I don’t answer his question, he angles back. “You mad at me?”
“No. That’s stupid. Why would you think that?”
He pokes my arm. “Text much? Check your voicemail?”
I avoid the truth, that I don’t know how to handle the way he makes me feel and go with the modern woman’s stand-by.MoreLess
“Good time?” he asks, tossing me the keys I leave hidden under one of the cement blocks that line the parking lot of my building.
I set my purse on the surprisingly empty table that usually houses my newly arrived magazines and unopened envelopes. “Yeah. We ate at my aunt’s house. Pot roast and chocolate cake.”
“You’re a happy girl.”
He knows those are my favorite foods.
“Yeah.” ...I fiddle with my keys, remembering the last time I sat on the couch with him.
“Come on over and tell me about it,” he says, hefting himself upright and smacking the cushion next to him.
I drop down at the opposite end of the couch.
When I don’t answer his question, he angles back. “You mad at me?”
“No. That’s stupid. Why would you think that?”
He pokes my arm. “Text much? Check your voicemail?”
I avoid the truth, that I don’t know how to handle the way he makes me feel and go with the modern woman’s stand-by.MoreLess
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