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Archive for February, 2010
The movie had long since finished and the DVD player shut itself off, leaving the TV with only a blue, empty screen. Holly had dozed off even before it ended, her head cradled by a cushion she had purposely put halfway on my lap. I looked down at her affectionately, then shook her lightly. “C’mon, [...]
Brent looked up at me and gave me an amused, but hollow, grin. “Do you know what today is?”
I thought about it. “Thursday?”
“No.” He almost sounded disgusted. “Why would I expect everybody to be dating?”
I thought about if for a second, then it dawned on me. “Oh….” I realized. “It’s the 14th. Valentine’s Day.”
“Right,” Brent said. He chuckled. “If you hadn’t broken up with Candace already, then she’d be breaking up with you now.”
And so I found myself at Café Yoko’s, alone, and nursing a warm beer. I looked across at the empty seat. It hurt more than I thought it would. But it was hardly doing me any good to sit here, brooding over it. I was just thinking of leaving when a voice interrupted my thoughts. “Let me guess,” she said. “Girl problem?”
Okay, I’ve seen this around way too many times, and I am utterly sick of it. This. I don’t have a problem with the whole list. There’s some good stuff there. But, believe you me, it has problems. Now, while I have an issue, as a reader, with #2 (Never use prologues, he says. I [...]
“Hmm… You know what you need to do, Shades?” Tony said suddenly. “You need to buy her a few dozen roses. Then you need to go by her house and sit on her doorstep, waiting for her. And then, when she gets home, you need to stand up and shove them into her hands and say, ‘I love you! I need you back. I’ll never do – whatever it is you did – again.’”