“Don’t look now, but that guy over there has been staring at you nonstop for the past hour or so.” Sally, Nora’s best friend whispered into her ear, giggling and staring at someone to the right of Nora. Of course, Nora instinctively turned and glanced in the direction in which Sally was looking, cau
“I shouldn’t be doing this.” She thought to herself, but even as she thought it, she had to admit to herself how good her make-believe boyfriend’s lips tasted. “What the hell? We broke up only three days ago, and already you’re kissing another man? There’s no way you’ll tell me that you weren’t alr
Nora tried to swallow her disappointment when they got to the semi-full bar and there was no sign of Austin anywhere there. Of course, he wasn’t there. The bar wasn’t his home after all. She sat rigidly with Sally’s new love interest and his friend, wishing that she hadn’t even come at all. Soon en
“What do you mean you’re pregnant?” Sally screeched loud enough to awaken the dead. “I can’t be pregnant … I just can’t be. It’s unbelievable, but I’ve been to four different hospitals and they all confirmed that I’m three weeks gone. Oh, my God, Sally, how on earth did I get here?” “Um, by having
"Uh, Nora. I’ll be back shortly. Please stay here and wait for me, okay?” Austin told her, a bead of sweat forming on his forehead. Nora watched him in amazement. Who was this woman who made him so nervous and why on earth did she make him nervous? “No, no. It’s not a problem. I was already leaving
“What do you mean you’re leaving? Leaving to go where exactly? What funds are you going to use to do that? How will you survive? What will you do with yourself?” A flabbergasted Sally asked Nora, who was a total mess. She looked around Nora's apartment, which admittedly, did not have a lot of househ
“The child's condition has worsened, Austin. I’m so sorry, but I don’t think he has much time left. We’ll try to make him as comfortable as possible in the meantime.” The doctor told Austin, who was sitting in a vacant chair and staring at his sleeping son … the son whom he hadn’t been there for in
By nighttime, just when he was planning to go out of the house without Christina’s knowledge and go explain things to Nora, he found out that Dylan could hardly breathe, so he rushed the boy to the best hospital in the city. In his haste, he forgot to take his phone along with him, and when he got