The List by Sherri L. Lewis

Author:Sherri L. Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2013-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

At our next girls’ meeting, I dethroned Lisa as the queen of bad dates. The girls laughed until I thought they would get sick as I told them about Mr. Indecisive, Mr. Super-spiritual, and Mr. Infectious Disease. I laughed with them at first, but the bad taste in my mouth from each experience took away from the humor.

After all that, I wasn’t so sure about this dating stuff. If my bad dates and Lisa’s bad dates were any indication of what I would continue to experience, I was pretty sure I didn’t want to date any more. Perhaps we needed to come to a scary conclusion.

Maybe guys our age who were single were single for a reason.

I looked up at Angela. She seemed more quiet and withdrawn than usual. I wondered if she was trying to stay invisible because she was afraid we’d get on her case again about staying at Gary’s house when she went to Augusta for the weekend.

I couldn’t imagine being in her position. If, by chance, I was blessed to meet someone wonderful, I’d have her dilemma. I couldn’t imagine trying to stay celibate in a relationship where I was in love with someone. It was hard enough when I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin. What would it be like now that I was a grown thirty-five-year-old woman who was all too familiar with the pleasures of sex? With hormones raging twice a month.

As much as I wanted a man in my life and as tired as I was of fighting the lonely monster and the horny monster, I wasn’t sure I could handle any more bad dates. And I wasn’t sure I could handle fighting to stay celibate if I did fall in love.

I looked around at my girls. I wasn’t gonna tell them, but I was ready to get on the bench in this game. I’d continue to have brief guy encounters just to have something to say on girls’ night, but that was about it.

Between you and me, God, I’m through.

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