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A month and two weeks after she gave birth to her daughter, Becca resumed work. It was not the same without Sandra, of course, and Becca missed her friend so much that at first, she was finding it difficult to concentrate, especially since the new teacher who had been hired to take Sandra’s place turned out to be a snob, who treated Becca with condescension, but she had no choice but to adapt and ignore the woman in turn. As she had known, things were not the same between her and Sandra, despite the fact that they still lived in the same city, only in different parts. It was almost as though she was now forcing her friendship on Sandra and the latter sort of seemed to be nervous each time Becca came over, so much so that Becca had begun to think that she had to stop going over so much. It was just that Sandra had made her promise to visit every weekend, and since Becca had no other friend apart from Dan, who was almost always busy, she had taken up Sandra on that offer. Her haywire h
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Sandra recovered immediately, her eyes becoming bright again, causing Becca to almost wonder if she had imagined her expression some seconds ago.“Well? Are you going to answer or not?” Becca asked.“Oh, that … it’s just a bruise. Nothing serious, really. Actually, it’s a very funny story. See, the thing is that I went to the supermarket to get some things. Turned out that there was one of all these crazy people, whom you’ll never know are crazy until they literally start biting you, there. So, there I was in my aisle, minding my own business when out of the blues, this guy grabs my arm really hard and began yelling at me at the top of his voice. It was the most embarrassing thing ever. Of course, I was shocked into silence at first and then began to scream for help. You wouldn’t believe that instead of people to help, they were busy recording the whole thing on their phones. I’m surprised that my face is not yet splattered all over the internet, or maybe it is. Who knows? I’ve been t
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As Becca had suspected, Sandra didn’t come over as she had promised the next day, which was a Sunday, neither did she text or call. Becca, who had resolved to stop bugging her, was contemplating whether to take Emma and go to see a movie when her doorbell rang. She opened the door to see Dan standing there sheepishly, a basket of fruits in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other.“Hey, stranger.” He said, nodding at her in greeting as though they were strangers to each other. Becca fought the urge to roll her eyes.“What do you want?” She asked instead.“Is that any way to talk to your dear neighbor who has missed you more than you can imagine?”“Yeah, right. You missed me so much that you couldn’t even be bothered to check up on me. Come in.” She told him, standing aside and letting him go inside the house. Just seeing him alone was enough to get her pulse racing and her entire body tingling, and knowing that there was nothing stopping her from having sex with him if she wanted no
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Everything about Dan was perfect, it seemed because the lovemaking was indeed perfect. He made Becca come so hard that she could have sworn that she saw stars. By the time it was done though, she lay beside him trying to catch her breath and doing her best not to let the tears that suddenly sprang out of nowhere to her eyes fall. What the fuck was wrong with her? The answer was very simple. The whole thing reminded her of Ryan and how passionately they used to have sex. It was embarrassing to think that in the end there, she hadn’t been thinking of Dan, but of Ryan.Now that she was back to reality, she felt guilty, and worst of all was fast coming to the realization that all this while, she had only been deluding herself. Ryan was still very much a part of her. How could he not be, when she saw his face every day disguised as her infant daughter’s own? The realization that she still missed him so deeply, despite everything, made her feel like the stupidest woman on God’s green planet
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Becca had just finished teaching her class and was sitting down looking at her emails when all of a sudden, a ruckus erupted among her pupils. Startled, she raised her head to see almost all of them trooping towards the door, arms waving. Standing up, she turned in that direction to see the reason why they were doing that. Dan was standing in the doorway, bending to carry some of them, while the others crowded around his legs, craving his attention. He ruffled their hairs one by one, smiled at them, asked them how they were, and smiled sheepishly when his eyes met Becca’s shrugging, the smile not quite hiding the worry in his eyes. Finally, he sent them back to their seats and came over to meet Becca, nodding slightly at her.“Hey, you. What on earth are you doing here, and how come my pupils seem to like you so much? I’m kinda jealous, come to think of it.” Becca joked.“I usually come over for career day, and I used to visit Sandra when she newly started to work here.”“Oh. I didn’t
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The ringing in Ryan’s ears refused to subside, no matter how hard he tried to stop it. He had prepared himself for this possibility, had known that it would be the most likely outcome of this whole thing, especially considering the recent events, but still, he had held out some hope that it would not be as he had feared. He was awfully wrong. His chest felt tight, as though he was going to have a heart attack any minute now. He only vaguely heard the judge’s voice over the roaring in his head as the woman droned on and on, while Craig’s family jubilated on their side. If only he had known, he would have pleaded hard for Anna and Noah to accept joint custody with him, or he would have even bought them off, except that he knew that they would never agree to be bought off. It galled him to admit that they actually loved their grandkids and were doing what they thought was best for the children. There was no way he would have accepted Anna and Noah’s demands that he handed the kids over t
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The day that Ryan gave up the twins had to be the hardest one that he had ever faced in his entire life. He dropped them off at their grandparents himself, hardly able to look Anna and Noah in the face as they received him into their house. His bodyguard brought Tyler and Taylor's belongings from the car into the house, while Margie busied herself with setting up the children's nursery, trying to make it as close to the one that they had at home. The week before, Ryan had had her come over to this house and remodel the room that was to be the nursery to look like the one back home. Now she was arranging their stuff the way they had been arranged back home too. The lump in his throat refused to go no matter how many times or how hard he swallowed to clear it, especially when he saw how uncomfortable the twins, especially Taylor, looked with the effusive petting of her grandparents. Tyler actually did not look too bothered and was busily chewing on a piece of cookie that Anna had given
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