Black Friday: Book 2 TGIF Series by Emma Lea

Author:Emma Lea [Lea, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-13T03:00:00+00:00

The rest of the weekend is a shambles. I hide away in my apartment, ignoring my phone and bingeing on ice-cream and eighties romance movies. By Sunday night I'm sick of my own company and have had enough of my own whining.

Monday sees me with a determination to get over myself. I go to my dad's and work out my frustrations cleaning and cooking. I'm quiet at family dinner, but I don't think anyone notices. If they do they don't say anything, but that's not unusual. The guys have never known how to deal with my moods and so I've always tried to hide them. The very few times they've seen me in tears, I've seen the fear in their eyes. It's just better for all of us if I pretend I'm okay.

With the dawning of Tuesday, I'm almost back to my old self. Work beckons me and I go willingly, gratefully. I throw myself back into it, happily losing myself in run sheets and menu planning.

I still have to work with Cole, but no longer side by side. I fire off email after email to him, nailing down details and requesting artwork for invitations and other promotional items. He answers about every third email on average, so I know he is also back at work.

There are no pleasantries or personal touches in any of our emails and he hasn't texted me all week. I'm relieved and sad at the same time. Things between us are strained and I never wanted that, it was the whole reason I hadn't wanted to get involved with him. It seems now, though, that our friendship has been irrevocably changed anyway.

It's the worst outcome I could've imagined. We're not fighting, it's more like a Cold War. They say the opposite of love isn't hate but indifference and that's what our friendship has become. He has become indifferent, lukewarm, towards me and it's worse than if he out and out hated me.

It's my own fault, I know it is and I have no excuse but to say that I got scared. And that is the worst excuse of all. Cole is going through a major life event and I'm the one running scared. It's not fair to him and just goes to prove what an awful friend I am and what an even worse girlfriend I would make.

But I can't waste time dwelling on it, it's not doing either of us any good. If we're ever going to get back to being friends, then we need to find a way past this...that is if Cole even wants to go back.

That makes me think about that last kiss. What had he been trying to tell me with that?

I really shouldn't read anything into it, he's grieving and he'd just found out that his mother was dead. It was just an overflow of emotion, just a need to connect. I really shouldn't make it into anything more. But, God, he felt so good pressed against me.

I lean back in my chair and close my eyes.

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