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Three weeks later…
I’m putting on my makeup while the kids are getting dressed for school. It’s another cold winter morning, and the weather is calling for snow. Ugh. I hate snow.
This is the first morning in weeks that I woke up feeling hopeful. I’m thinking of Jean and how I want to tell her about a new client I just secured. More jobs are trickling in lately than I know what to do with.
And that can only be a good thing. It means my business is growing, and if it keeps up, I won’t have to worry so much about the bills or how I’m going to provide for my kids.
Things are looking up.
That euphoric feeling should have been the first clue that this morning wasn’t going to be typical.
I finish putting on my lip gloss and stash my makeup bag in the vanity drawer, then pull my phone from my robe pocket as I stand up. I’m running against the clock, but I can’t wait another minute to tell her the news.
When my phone lights up, however, the last thing I expect to see is Alejandro’s face in the little contact bubble floating on the screen.
The unexpected text sends my blood pressure skyrocketing, giving me an instant headache.
All thoughts of Jean vanish, consumed by fear and anxiety, excitement and more anxiety.
I never even felt the phone vibrate.
What could he want?
My entire body hums like a live wire, my pulse pounding so hard my vision brightens and fades along with it.
I touch the bubble, and his text fills the screen.
Julie?
Yeah…
It’s me. How are you?
I know who it is. I’m fine.
It’s been a while. I miss you.
I want to say so many things. Yeah, it has. I miss you too. Where the hell have you been? Go fuck yourself. Instead, I say:
What do you want?
There’s a long pause, and I just sit there, like a lovesick fool, the time on the clock no longer a concern, as I await his reply. When it finally comes, it’s a wonder I don’t fall over in a dead faint.
I want…
You to come outside…
And kiss me.
The end
