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“Well, I would be tired too after getting all hot and bothered with that sexy man you are working with,” Tessa cheered. She high fived the other girls who joined her in what I could only describe as twerking while sitting down.
“What sexy man is this?” Cheryl asked.
“Ricky,” Tessa replied. “He is a damn good looking firefighter.”
“Whoo! I always wanted to get with a firefighter. I’d love to play with that hose…” Cheryl teased.
I laughed. These girls were perverted. But they were fun.
“He is my employer. I take care of his daughter. I don’t work with him,” I corrected them.
“But you did say that he was hot,” Tessa replied. “I looked him up online. Yeah, that man is so fine. I would already have been knocked up by him if I was in your shoes.”
“You are crazy,” I said. “I’m not going to do anything with him. It is a bad idea, no matter how many of those insane Lifetime romances you watch.”
“All of those movies are grounded in real life,” Tessa said.
“No, they are not,” I said. “They are grounded in a writer’s imagination. Real life just doesn’t work that way.”
“Well, you can make your life as exciting as you want it to be or not. That is all up to you,” Tessa said. “If you want to be mundane and boring by never taking any risks then that is on you.”
“She’s right,” Cheryl added. “My sister took the initiative and now she is happily married to the best guy ever. They met when she was hired as a personal trainer to his teenage daughter who was preparing for some fitness competition. And they just hit it off. It was exciting. But if she’d worried that it may or may not have been appropriate then she wouldn’t have gone for it.”
“I just can’t. Besides, I’m not looking right now anyway. I am just not in the right place in my life to handle a real relationship.”
“You have been saying that for months, ever since you broke up with Jeremy,” Tessa said.
“What does Jeremy have to do with this? I’m fine. I’ve been over him for a long time,” I said.
“Are you sure about that?” Tessa asked.
“Yes.”
“Well, he is coming this way, so I guess we will find out.”
Tessa was gesturing behind me. Sure enough, there was my ex-boyfriend Jeremy walking towards me right then with a relaxed grin on his face.
“Did you know he was going to be here?” I asked Tessa.
“Nope. Not a clue.”
“I swear if you knew and dragged me out here to see him, I’m going to kill you.”
“I had no idea,” Tessa said. For whatever reason, I actually believed her.
I did not want to speak with him. He was one of the last people that I really wanted to see.
“Hey, Julie,” Jeremy said as he approached me.
I turned my head to him and forced a smile. What was going on here?
“Fancy seeing you here,” Jeremy said.
I still didn’t respond. When he had broken up with me, it had really hurt. I didn’t really want to talk to him in any capacity. He’d proven that he didn’t want anything real with me, so why was he talking to me now?
“Um, listen can we go somewhere and talk?” Jeremy asked. He seemed so timid and boring. I wondered what I’d ever really seen in him. He was weak and he’d proven it by dumping me.
“I have nothing to talk about with you. Do you mind? I’m with my friends.”
