Given Away (A Lesbian Romance Novel) by Briar Lane

Author:Briar Lane [Lane, Briar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Briar Lane
Published: 2019-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

12

Catie

I sat down at my desk, trying to ignore what day it was.

It was the most embarrassing thing in the world, having to tell them I no longer needed this Friday off.

Everyone knew Anya. She frequently came in to have lunch with me, and she had told several of my closer co-workers about her wedding. So, it was quite a shock to my boss when I said I was free to work, and many people were surprised to see me in today.

Maybe I should have stayed home today. Just pretended to go to the wedding, not gotten weird looks and faces turned my way. This may have been a mistake.

But I also needed work today. Because if I didn’t work, what would I be doing? Sitting in my new empty apartment thinking about how I was missing my best friend’s wedding day? Believe it or not, that actually wasn’t a preferable situation to me.

But, then again, what was these days?

I didn’t bother to tell them I also wouldn’t need the days off for my own wedding in a few weeks. I didn’t want to have to explain that Derek and I were no longer together. I’d already gotten weird enough looks when they’d believed I was no longer friends with Anya. Imagine the looks I’d get if they knew I’d been dumped.

Plus, I never needed to tell them, because I didn’t feel the need to work the day of my wedding to feel less sad. I didn’t think I was going to be sad at all, actually. On the contrary, the further away I got from the Vegas weekend, the more I felt I had dodged a bullet.

How pathetic, though, that missing my best friend’s wedding was more depressing than missing my own. I was real fucking hung up on that girl.

It wasn’t just missing it, though. It was the fact that it was happening at all. She was getting married to another person, and there was literally nothing I could do to change her mind. Nothing I could do to convince her she was making a terrible mistake, which I still believed.

Maybe it was just wishful thinking, but I didn’t believe it was. I really thought she loved me more than Brad. Not that it mattered now. She’d chosen him, chosen the safe decision, the decision that nobody would judge. That had been Anya’s problem for a long time… not being able to handle people judging her.

“Catie, it’s twelve,” one of my coworkers, James, said.

“Huh?” I asked.

“It’s noon… time for us to take our lunch?”

“Oh, right, yeah,” I nodded. “Thanks, I got really caught up here.”

“No worries. Did you bring anything to eat? Because I didn’t see your lunchbox in the fridge.”

“Shit, no, I didn’t. I totally forgot it at home,” I sighed.

“Well, do you want to go to lunch with me? I’m grabbing a sandwich down the street.”

If I didn’t know better, I’d think James was hitting on me. But I did know better. He was gay and in a relationship.

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