Because you are one of our most important clients, I know that it is important to make sure you have a very good time at our year-end holiday party. During the cocktail hour, we have a couple of drinks and chat. My husband and your date are there - we're all enjoying the evening. On a few different occasions, I notice you looking at me with a lingering glanc...
You set there at the table amongst friends, enjoying the laid-back atmosphere of yet another party. Mellow music is flowing throughout the house, along with good wine and liquors. This night seems no different than any other Friday night you have spent in this same house, sitting in this same chair, with the very same friends. As the clock winds forward, how...
"Which one?" you shout from the bedroom. "The one I like, with the yellow flowers!" I holler up the stairs to you. "Fine, fine, take it easy!" your good-natured reply comes echoing throughout the house. I'm sitting on the couch, waiting for you. We have no real plans today but that doesn't mean I don't have something planned for you. Sundays, I wax poet...
The weekend flew by. She was being dropped off Sunday night around ten before I knew it. I helped her bring her stuff in, and her friend waited in the car. When I made the final trip to the car for her last bag I seen them kiss through the car window before she stood up quick telling him that she hopes to see him soon.I grab the bag, and follow her into the...
With each stop more people stuffed themselves into the car. Before long I began to feel like livestock being transported to their doom. Despite the stuffiness, I keep thinking back to the meeting. Why did I let that smug little prick throw me off with such a stupid question? Once again I was too damn nice and tried to answer someone's totally irrelevant que...
I'm know what's on the other side of the door which makes it both difficult to open and impossible not to. She sent me the text, a warning and an invitation, leaving my gut in knots of anticipation and pain. I know why it has to be this way, why nothing is just one thing, but opposite and incompatible things all at once. I can hear her. I need to see her bu...
A few years ago, I worked at a small company that had about a dozen employees. This particular year the daughter of one of the senior guys was working with us for the summer. Melanie was going away to school in the fall, and was saving up for her school expenses. She had been assigned to my crew on the midnight shift, and she definitely brightened up the nig...
Loud drum beats from the stage. The crowd started chanting the words. Davey Havok walked onto the stage, and turned his back to the crowd. Hunter, Jade and Adam joined him. The music started and Davey turned and crooned “Nothin’ from nowhere, I’m no one at all.” Robbin looked at Moria and yelled “Oh, isn’t he sexy! What I’d give to get into those pleather...
Bzzz. His phone vibrated just as he got to the desk to check in. He looked down and saw it was a text message. He handed the guy behind the desk his credit card as he checked his phone. It was Her. His pulse quickened just a bit. "How are you?" it read. "Good." was his typed reply. "Just checking in to my hotel." He got his credit card back. A moment lat...
It was late August. Even with the sun directly overhead, at this altitude the days can still be chilly. Like a heavenly light the sun's rays shone through the aspen trees giving Carol a warm glow. With her back to Steve she walked on ahead. The fresh cool scent of evergreen trees clash with the sharp and dusty smell of the aspens. Her feet crunch on the leav...