Day 58: Tales Of Semi-Confessions And Full Friendship Suspicions
Day 58: Tales Of Semi-Confessions And Full Friendship Suspicions
Day 58 Of How To Move On From A Man — 1LD
I thought this little prank being pulled on me would end last night when work finished.
But true to his word, James didn’t leave.
And, as I was making toast this morning, he told me I would need to help him pack the van he hired to move everything else of his into my house.
“Fuck,” I said under my breath, burning the toast.
I took my eyes off the prize for one moment and look what happened. I had charred toast and a new roommate.
“You can’t just move in here without telling me what’s going on James. It doesn’t work like that where you can push me around.”
I replaced the burned toast with two fresh pieces of bread.
“And don’t think for a second I can forget last week or that this radical change of pace simply fixes everything.”
James joined me in the kitchen.
“I thought about what happened between us. I didn’t feel like I could tell you about an event I wanted to go to. And you couldn’t tell me you weren’t dealing well with the whole Douglas situation. We’re not on the same page. And this is the only way to get us there.”
“How did you know I wasn’t dealing with Douglas?”
In our stand-off the other night, I refused to tell him why I had gone to the conference.
“Please, Andie. You implemented a self-imposed ban on leaving this house until you were over him. And then, as your first outing, you went to a conference Douglas was speaking at. How is that you doing ok?”
He was right.
Though I was there to try to find things out and get answers to questions I still had, his summary didn’t exactly sell the idea I was doing well with everything.
It made me sound bat shit crazy.
I hated there was some truth to it, too. The whole idea of Douglas lurking in my life was sending me crazy.
“I guess you’re right. But I can’t have anyone living here who is sleeping with my ex-boyfriend.”
James cocked his head.
“Eww, please. I-am-not sleeping him. And do you know how hard it is not to go to a conference when you know no one except the keynote speaker? As soon as he saw me, he insisted I roll with him. I couldn’t escape the guy.”
“If only you looked around the room you might have seen me.”
And if only you were telling me the truth, I thought.
There was something James wasn’t telling me. I could feel it. Stupid intuition.
Perhaps with James as my roommate, I might find out what it it.
The toast popped.
Burned again.
Crap.
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