Day 75: Tales Of Cutting Out Friends And Backhanded Enquiries
Day 75 Of How To Move On From A Man — 1LD
I was walking out the front door as James was leaving. He said something to me but I was in a too greater rush to ask him to repeat it.
Running late will do that to you.
Getting in the car I realised I probably should have paused and asked him to repeat himself.
Acting the way he was treating me was exactly dignified.
However, I was cutting him out of my dinner with Sophia and her on-and-off-again boyfriend, Malcolm. I was cutting out GG too.
If he told him he knew about my sneaky plan to corner Sophia on her own, perhaps I would back out. And I didn’t need anyone else convincing me this was a bad idea.
I had my own trepidation doing that.
But I’m desperate right now. More than ever. I can’t tell what is happening, where everyone is and why no one can tell me what is going on behind my back.
My messages to GG go unanswered. She cancelled our spin class this morning.
And James? Well, he remains a transient figure at 1 Lovelock Drive. It feels like a waiting game, where I hope someone will tell me what I’m missing.
Yet, sitting back and waiting for the hammer to drop, in the same way that Douglas broke up with me, would be repeating history.
And repeating mistakes.
I wasn’t into that.
No, thank you.
Part of me thought about what Douglas would do in my situation. He would confront the assholes (his words, not mine). He wouldn’t let people conspire behind his back, no matter who it was to him.
I’m sure he and Taylor would have gotten into scraps over business more often than not. He seemed to survive quite well. Imagining him in his South Yarra penthouse only confirms this idea.
If I couldn’t get rid of my ex out of my life right now, not entirely, I would channel a side of him I admired.
No, tolerated.
No, a side I could use to my heartbroken advantage.
Sophia and Malcolm were seated at the table I booked at the Ugly Ducking. It was this adorable cocktail bar on Swan St, just a few minutes walk from the MCG.
This wasn’t the type of place that attracted the pre-footy crowd, something I was thankful for.
“Hey babe,” Sophia said, remaining in her seat when she would normally stand to hug me.
“Where is James?”
I had to check my ears. “He’s not with me. I didn’t invite him.”
Sophia issued me a tense expression.
“Oh. Are we going behind his back?”
I stared at her. “You know we’re not married right? I don’t have to invite him to everything I go to.” If I didn’t know better it was like she knew what I was up to.
She couldn’t possibly know, though.
Or could she? I was about to find out.
I know you might be a little confused about my break up with my ex, Douglas. Well, here’s the day he broke up with me, as a little context, shall we say:
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