Carmen by Nako

Author:Nako [Nako]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NAKOEXPO PRESENTS
Published: 2019-09-11T22:00:00+00:00

In order for her to successfully relaunch, The Showroom, a trip to California was needed. She caught a red-eye to her old stomping grounds and checked into the SLS Beverly Hills. After catching up on some uninterrupted sleep without sex, she was well-rested.

Carmen took a shower, grabbed a latte and hopped in her rental car.

She now understood that her time in Los Angeles was what she would forever refer to as a season.

A chapter.

As many good things that took place for her in L.A.

It was also a time of solitude.

You could be surrounded by a million people. Loved ones included. Children.

Family.

Friends.

A bookie boo.

And still, feel completely lonely.

Secluded.

Isolated.

Carmen smiled every day at The Showroom. She went to all the games with her friends, sat courtside while her heart and mind was somewhere in the nosebleeds.

She didn’t miss a concert.

Was able to cop every red bottom Saks had to offer.

She’d built the business.

Developed the brand.

Made headlines.

Graced the red carpet.

She’d seen the money in her account and had to double-check to make sure it was really real.

All those things were at her disposal and yet and still, she was alone.

Her child slept a few hundred feet away in his own bedroom and barely said two words to her.

Her friends loved her but in the back of her head she always wondered why.

Why? What did they love about her?

What did they admire? If she didn’t bring something to the table, if her spirit wasn’t so open, giving and helpful would they still love her?

Carmen’s trust issues ran a mile long.

No one would ever understand.

Well, Nehemiah did.

During a conversation, they had a few nights ago…she opened up.

“Sometimes I feel like I exist but I’m not living.”

She wondered if he thought she was crazy.

“I’ve been there. After my brother died. I lost my substance.”

“What you mean?”

He exhaled, “Nothing mattered anymore. You know substance is what you’re made of...it’s what fills something. Me and my brother were best friends. Without him, nothing made sense.”

He got her.

They connected on levels higher than the bedroom.

She made love to him all night, hoping that she’d filled him up of the substance that he was in dire need of.

Nia sent her an address where her files were stored. She’d left the keys to the building with Narie.

Carmen was extremely nervous about seeing her. It’d been so long.

Distance didn’t matter when the friendship was real from the beginning.

Narie walked right up to her in the middle of the street.

Carmen was looking for the storefront that Nia told her Narie now owned and was finally living out her dream of selling home goods and candles.

“How random is this?” she questioned.

Carmen shook her head, “Not too random. I was headed to your store.”

She was happy to see her, nevertheless.

They walked hand in hand like the old days and caught up, as if no time had passed.

Narie used a key code to grant them access.

She powered the lights on and said, “I’m not going to open yet.”

She kept the blinds closed and the closed sign on the door.

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