Becoming Zara by Lillianna Blake

Author:Lillianna Blake [Blake, Lillianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0692472134
Amazon: B00XVJ938M
Publisher: Sassy Women's Fiction
Published: 2015-06-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

I leaned into my stretch as I waited for Nicole in the park. I was a few minutes early, which was fine. Work had been rough—it was honestly all I could do to keep from walking out today. My boss had been going on and on about some classes that he wanted us all to sign up for—at the company’s expense of course, but even so, who wanted to take time out of their personal life to attend a class about some lame software that they were trying to train us all on by summer?

I’d made a decision in that moment that I’d be gone before summer. That was the deadline I was now giving myself, which meant I had three months to figure out what my next move would be.

“Zara.”

I looked over to see Nicole waving as she made her way across the grass to where I was stretching.

“Hey, nice track suit,” I said. “I love the color.” Nicole was dressed head-to-toe in pink, which looked perfect with her dark hair.

“Thanks.” She gave me a wide smile. “And thanks for meeting me. I know you’re busy with work and everything.”

“Oh, no problem. I’m in the mood for a walk, and the temperature is so perfect today. Do you wanna stretch a little bit first?”

Nicole nodded and started doing some side bends, and I bent over to get a good downward dog pose in. I didn’t care at all today about my rear being in the air. I’d decided that I was over that whole business again about caring what other people thought about my body. That was how I was going to recover from what that jerk Anthony had said to me—and I was ready.

I noticed Nicole watching me as I breathed in deeply through my nose.

“Do you do yoga?” I asked.

“Oh, no. I don’t think I have the body for it.”

“What do you mean?”

“Oh, I dunno. At my gym, everyone that goes to the yoga class is so slim. I just—I never thought I would fit in there.”

“Well, I think you’d fit in just fine.” I smiled at her. I really wanted her to give it a try—to try something new. “Wanna try? I’ll show you, and it’s pretty easy.”

“No, I don’t think so.”

I flexed my legs, which I’m pretty sure caused my butt to wave a friendly hello to the heavens. I wasn’t taunting Nicole with it, but I could hardly contain my laughter as I flipped over, to sit with my legs crossed in front of me in the grass.

Nicole sat down across from me and I followed her gaze to where my tattoo was just noticeable above the ankle-length sock I was wearing. I pulled the sock down a bit to show her the small tiara that I’d gotten on the inside of my ankle, grinning—just because I loved it so much.

“That’s great.”

“Do you have any tattoos?”

“No, I’m too much of a chicken to get one—even though my boyfriend has tons and has tried to convince me to get a matching skull with him.

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