No More Pretending by Bette Hawkins

Author:Bette Hawkins [Bette Hawkins]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781594935442
Google: e10gvgAACAAJ
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Goodreads: 32332853
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2017-07-25T03:00:00+00:00

That afternoon and for the rest of the week, they avoided one another. It was only now that Lauren was staying away that Harper grasped how often Lauren had pursued her company before. Lauren had often lingered in her office or found her in the halls to chat. Now Harper found herself scanning rooms to see if she were there, and looking at her doorway to find it empty.

A few days after their conversation at Joe’s,Sal asked Harper to bring him a notepad from his office. When she reached him, she saw that he and Lauren were watching a laptop screen together, their heads drawn close. When Harper walked in, they both looked up at her at the same time. Lauren registered her presence and smiled at her, but it was hollow. After all the time they had spent together, Harper knew the difference between her real smile and this fake one. Harper couldn’t bring herself to react to it at all, and she ignored Lauren in favor of talking to Sal. She could feel Lauren staring at her.

By the time the weekend rolled around, loneliness was gnawing at her. For a while she had looked forward to weekends so much, but now the days seemed empty and boring. It was a taste of what she would have experienced when Lauren returned to New York anyway. She supposed it was better that she become used to it now.

No matter how hard she tried to be pragmatic about the breakdown of their friendship Harper felt terrible. Visions of Lauren’s smile, the real one, were so clear that it was like a photograph in her mind. She missed the way Lauren always laughed at her jokes as though they were the funniest things she had ever heard, on the easy way Lauren would lie back on the blanket with her hands under her head, as though there were nothing she would rather be doing than spending time with Harper at the lake.

She wondered if Lauren missed her even half as much as she missed Lauren.

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