In the Wake of Wanting by Lori L. Otto

Author:Lori L. Otto [Otto, Lori L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781535308090
Amazon: 1535308095
Goodreads: 31366501
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-10-17T23:00:00+00:00

I introduce Coley to Dig Inn at lunch time, offering to share meals with her so she can try more of the items on the menu. She still had a hard time picking out what she wanted, so I told her we’d come back on Wednesday and do it all over again.

“You look a little tired,” she says to me.

“Do I?” I ask coyly. “I haven’t slept at all.”

“Are you kidding?”

“Sadly, no.”

“Was it bad?” She sets her utensils down and folds her hands in her lap.

“I would probably go ahead and call it disastrous, were I to think of a good adjective for the night as a whole.”

“Oh, no. I’m so sorry.”

“I don’t guess it was supposed to be good or easy. It was the end of a relationship. I didn’t expect it would go well. I didn’t expect it to be quite as calamitous, either,” I admit.

I tell her about the one-sided food fight that occurred, and my hope that it all comes out of the carpet this weekend with Jenny’s expertise in cleaning remedies. I explain that Zaina didn’t want to sleep in the guest room where Coley had slept, so she staked her claim on my bedroom and shut me out of there.

“I didn’t mind sleeping where you slept, though,” I tell her. “I could still smell your piña colada shampoo and whatever fruity soap you use. I listened to your voicemail and thought I was settled in for the night and ready to at least attempt to sleep.

“I may have started to doze off, but it couldn’t have been for more than a few minutes. I woke up when Zaina crawled onto the bed with me.”

Coley lifts her brows, curious. I nod.

“I rolled over to face her and tell her she couldn’t be in there. She turned on the lights in the bedroom to reveal that she was wearing absolutely nothing. I threw the covers over her and got out of bed. She was begging me and crying and I was yelling at her and angry… and then I just felt awful.

“I sat down next to her and held her while she sobbed. I bet it went on for at least an hour. She asked for one more chance. One last time. One final kiss. And I got tired of telling her no. So I told her she couldn’t stay with me. I told her I was either taking her to her parents or I was calling them and having them come to get her, but it was one or the other. So I helped her gather her things while she got dressed, and around two-thirty this morning, we went to her parents’ house. Of course they weren’t happy to be awoken like that, and they were pretty devastated to hear the news. That was hard. I felt like absolute shit. You know, her parents thought we’d get married someday, and here I was dropping her off on their doorstep after I dumped her. But it had to be done.

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