Day 112: Tales Of To-Do Lists And One Night Stand Grovelling
Day 112 Of How To Move On From A Man — 1LD
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I’m Andie and my ex, Douglas, dumped me. This is my break-up, so to speak. Douglas is a power player in Melbourne, worth more than I could ever comprehend.
I have no idea why we broke up.
I work and live at 1 Lovelock Drive. There, my best friend James and I are building Highway, our unisex clothing line. Our two other best friends, GG and Sophia, are investors.
GG is dating Douglas’ brother. Awkward.
I’ve recently discovered my ex has bought a controlling stake in our business. But I had to find that out the hard way!
To do today:
Call Taylor.
Message Alex.
Find James.
Update notes.
Wash hair.
Call Taylor.
I thought about what I would say when he picked up. If he was with GG, I would have to have some brilliant reason for calling her boyfriend considering we were on sour terms.
But even more pressing, if he was alone, what would I say to him after he confessed his feelings to me? His fledging feelings I should say. Sorry for leading you on.
Sorry for leaning on you.
Sorry, I can name you as one of only three people who I can seem to trust, along with Sophia and Alex.
Though Sophia was feeding me breadcrumbs after the fact. Not exactly trustworthy. And Alex’s interest in me seemed borderline obsessive for the wrong reasons.
I don’t think we will ever be on the same page with what we want from this friendship.
Taylor didn’t answer. He messaged though.
I said I just wanted to make sure we were good. He replied quickly.
“We’re good. At least I think we’re good.”
I said we were too. Putting the phone down, it didn’t feel resolved. Yet, part of me wondered if it ever would be.
Message Alex.
I thanked him for Friday night and apologised for acting so weird. Again. For acting like I didn’t care about him.
For having my head up my ass.
He didn’t respond.
I saw that he had read it pretty quickly and, from my guesses, ignored it. I couldn’t blame him.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have any relationships right now. It would seem I can’t even handle casual sex. Or maybe the problem is I don’t like Alex that much.
Or, more than likely, Douglas has a chokehold on my life.
Poor Alex. Poor me?
Find James.
Finding my housemate and best friend shouldn’t be that hard.
Yet, it did prove a waiting game. He wasn’t there when I woke up, but I saw his runners were missing. James wasn’t what you called an exercise person, so I knew he wouldn’t be gone long.
When he walked through the door, I told him to rally the troops. Tomorrow night we talk about this problem.
He nodded.
Update Notes.
Suddenly I had a deadline on my hands.
Lately, these conversations have always been a little stunted. One-sided. They know more things than me. I couldn’t go into this meeting looking like I was the chump, the dope without a clue.
It was bad enough Douglas put me in my place with his frank assessment of business skills. I couldn’t give my “friends” any more confirmation bias they already had.
Better add get vodka to my list of things to do. The cheap stuff.
I don’t have the money for Belvedere right now.
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