Still not into you by Charlotte Byrd

Author:Charlotte Byrd [Byrd, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Byrd Books
Published: 2020-06-22T18:30:00+00:00

21

I’ve managed to avoid Hudson for a whole week. I thought it would be hard, but it wasn’t. His work schedule has remained pretty much the same since our fight. He works late Monday through Wednesday and has classes all day Thursday and Friday. A couple of days, he came home way after eleven and left before I was up.

On Thursday, in Victorian Literature, I space out for nearly the whole lecture thinking about him and Kathryn. Why does she have to be so hot and so nice? I’ve never felt this way before. I never thought of myself as a particularly jealous person, but thinking about him and her working late at night at the office makes my skin crawl. I know we’re not together anymore. Worse yet, I’m married and he doesn’t even know it, but still. I don’t want him to be around her, but there’s nothing I can do about it.

I stay out late this evening. I know he won’t be home and I just don’t feel like sitting around my dorm room all day, staring at the walls or reading a million BuzzFeed articles and making extra boards to pin more curious but completely unimportant things on Pinterest.

I stop by the coffee shop that Tea and I frequent often and order a cup of green tea.

“Hey!” I hear a familiar voice.

“Hi, Hudson,” I say, turning around and forcing myself to smile. What the hell is he doing here?

“What are you doing here?” he asks.

“Just getting some tea and you?”

“My class got cancelled. So, I thought I’d waste some time here,” he says with a shrug. “Oh, man, I haven’t seen you in forever!”

Hudson puts his arms around me. His body feels warm and firm, comforting. For a moment, I’m transported to another time. When we were still together and in love. When everything in the world was right and nothing could break us up.

“You smell so nice,” he whispers, giving me a chaste peck on the cheek.

He leans over to kiss my lips, but I turn my head away. I move away from him. My whole body tenses when he puts his arm on the small of my back and doesn’t remove it. Eventually, I just take a step to the side to get myself some space.

“Listen, I’m glad you’re here,” he says.

His face looks serious. Hudson furrows his brows and his eyes look earnest and under control. It’s as if he can stop them from twinkling just by willing them so.

“I can’t stay,” I say.

“Alice, please.” Hudson takes my hand. “I feel like we’ve gotten off on the wrong foot. I haven’t seen you much since…that happened. I really need to talk.”

“No, I really can’t.” I shake my head and turn to leave.

“You don’t have any more classes today, Alice. You’re just avoiding me,” he says. The desperation in his voice makes me sick to my stomach. Against my better judgement, I turn around and sit down across from him.

“Thank you,” he says, picking up my hand and kissing the back of it.

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