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“Of course I’ll be there. Nothing can keep me away. Jax your best man?”
“None other.”
“Oh goodness, you’re going to let that man near all the single women at your wedding? They’ll get ideas in their heads, and Jax will encourage them—right into his bed.”
Daniel laughed.
“Unless you’re telling me he’s changed?” She stood up from the living room couch and headed toward the kitchen.
“No, he’s still a womanizer.”
“A player,” Tae corrected, shaking her head. “Well, just be warned because you don’t want the drama on your special day.”
“At least it will be memorable,” he teased.
“I’ll give you that.”
She spoke to him a little while longer, updating him on work, and he filled her in on a few details of his fiancée. Tae found herself looking forward to seeing this woman who had captured Daniel, but when the emotions bubbled too close to the surface, she made an excuse to get him off the phone and disconnected.
The next call she made was to her best friend, Zerita.
“Hey, girl,” Zerita chirped, always bubbly.
“Hey,” Tae echoed.
“Uh-oh, who pissed in your Cheerios?”
Tae rolled her eyes and opened a cabinet door over the kitchen counter. “Must you be crass, nut? I’m just calling to tell you the news.”
“What news?”
Tae pulled down a box of cereal and opened it. Grabbing a bowl from the dish rack, which she hadn’t emptied after washing the dishes, she searched a drawer for a large spoon. “Daniel’s getting married.”
Zerita gasped. “You mean your Danny?”
“He’s not my Danny, but yes, my ex.”
“The one you’ve been pretending to be friends with but in reality you still love him, Danny?”
“For real, Zerita?” She filled her bowl with cereal and then considered getting a bigger one out of the cabinet. “I am not still in love with him.” She lied. If there was one thing about Tae, she did not lie to herself. She did love Daniel, but she had no intention of admitting the fact to Zerita.
“Are you eating Frosted Flakes?”
Tae froze with the box clutched in her hand. “For your information, I’m in the living room realizing I need a mani-pedi.”
“Listen, woman,” her friend intoned, “unlike normal people who eat ice cream or doughnuts when they’re upset, Frosted Flakes is your comfort food, and I hear you crunching in my ear. So don’t try to play me talking about you don’t love Danny.”
Tae moved the phone away from her mouth so she could munch the cereal in her mouth without Zerita hearing. When she’d swallowed, she brought the phone back to her face and then searched the refrigerator for something to wash down the dry cereal. A cola appealed, so she grabbed one and popped it open.
“I’m the one who broke it off after he asked me to marry him, Zerita, or don’t you remember that?”
“I remember.” The click of the keyboard sounded in Tae’s ear, and she knew even though it was Sunday, Zerita wrote her column for the magazine where they both worked. “You weren’t ready to get married.”
Tae nodded despite the fact that her friend couldn’t see her. “Thank you. I’m glad you’ve got your facts straight. I am not pining over Daniel Elliott.”
“Uhm.” Zerita sounded unconvinced. “So he called to tell you. Did he want you to beg him not to do it?”
“Would you stop? No, he invited me.”
