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Cheska I bent over with both hands on my knee, panting breathlessly as I looked up at Kate. She stood akimbo looking at me with pity in her eyes. I could tell she was judging me for giving up on those squats so quickly. But who can do a hundred squats and it doesn’t have you feeling like from your waist down was about to fall off? I couldn’t even do ten properly! I felt as if I had done a long-distance race from exercising in the yard since six this morning. It was now an hour later and I am in need of a burger and some fries to motivate me to exercise the next day. I should text Prince and beg him to purchase one, or two for me. It was unbelievable that Kate had been in a coma and still fitter than me. I was literally dying from exhaustion and body aches. “You really are an embarrassment to fit people.” She criticized. I’m sure there are hundreds of people who will side with me, that exercising is just not meant for us! Unhealthy is just the way to go. “It has been a while sinc
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Cheska I pushed Prince away from me and looked away in order to avoid his stare. We both panted breathlessly as we were captivated by each other’s stare. The only thing that was on my mind, was kissing him, and it wasn’t like our wedding night kiss, or when he kissed me at the hospital just for publicity. This kiss was different. It was deep. Sexy. Mind-blowing. It’s like having a kiss with the guy you completely adore. At that moment it’s just the two of you, the world stops, and the butterflies in your stomach that have been holding on, let’s go and flies around with excitement. My heart was beating rapidly, and my legs shook. What was that?” I asked, breaking the intense silence. “A Kiss!” “I know, but why did you kiss me?” “You kissed me back, what’s the problem?” “We shouldn’t have.” He frowned and stepped forward. I shifted to the side, making sure there was a good distance between us. I felt relieved when he decided not to follow. His perfectly laid-back hair was now
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Cheska Love. True love. What is that really? How do I know when I am in love? How do I know that the way my heartstrings are pulling at each other is true love? It could just be my anxiety eating at me and I wish I could just switch off the way I am feeling right now. This feeling is disturbing me, and I cannot stand it. Scientists should have invented a way to turn certain feelings off completely because feeling like this when you do not want to is not healthy at all. We should all have a choice on the way we feel because this is insanity. I am nervous and avoiding him makes absolutely no sense. Because I keep checking on his last seen, his profile pictures, and his status updates despite muting him, wishing he would send me a text, even though we are in the same house. But I am foolish for doing that because he used to come and knock on my door and I pretended to be asleep, now he has stopped, and it is eating me alive! It has been a week of me avoiding him and it is driving me c
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Prince Alex stared at me from across the room, with disbelief in his eyes, after I told him about the kisses Cheska, and I shared. Of course, I expected him to not believe me. I am surprised at the turn of events because I swore I would hate her forever. But sometimes things just do not go as you had planned. I was once told that when love comes there is absolutely nothing that you can do to stop it. You can fight it, but how long before it overtakes your body, leaving you yearning for more? And suddenly. She is all you can think about. Her kisses, her touch, her body, her love. Everything about her becomes so beautiful. Especially that laughter. I am in love with her, and I did not even notice how fast I was falling for her until one day I just felt empty without her around. Last night, that kiss we shared was everything, and this was the first time kissing someone where I did not urge to have them in my bed. Because this time, it was not about sex, it was pure love. Passion. As I
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Cheska I could not help the smile that was plastered on my face when Prince kissed me goodbye. My cheeks immediately turned red, and my lips begged for more. I would spend the entire day with our lips intertwined and cuddling in bed, laying against his hard chest, and inhaling his cologne. "I'll text you when I get to work sweetheart." "Okay, see you later!" I said, twirling my hair around my fingers. For the past few weeks, our relationship has been amazing. The cuddles, the kisses, it was everything I had imagined. Hannah has been overly excited about everything, and she kept reminding me that she predicted that we would be together. Thinking about where we are coming from, and all we have been through has been so cringing to think about, I had to mentally block it from my brain each time I thought about it. "Y'all not planning on fucking?" Kate asked, interrupting my thoughts. "Seriously? You can't ask me that?" I muttered. "Fine!" She said, throwing her hands up. "I forgot
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Prince I looked at the variety of beautiful roses in front of me, it was hard to choose between them and the gorgeous white tulips. Roses are cliché. I stood in the flower shop gazing between both flowers for about a minute until an old lady walked over. “it’s always them roses son, they are the key to a woman’s heart,” she said in a crackly voice. I looked down at her wrinkled face and smile. “Buy a whole bunch and she will blush to death. Are they for yah girlfriend?” Nodded “My sweetheart. My wife.” “Romantic. I remembered the first time my husband bought me roses. I felt so loved, so appreciated. That night we made our first child.” She chuckled. “I kept them flowers alive for years, and it broke my heart when I had to put them on his grave …. “ The bright smile on her face dropped immediately, and a tear escaped from her eyes. I placed my hand on her shoulder and she quickly wiped the tear from her eyes. “I’m okay son. He lived a long life. Death must come one day, but bel
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Prince Trusting people is never easy. But when you put faith in someone, betrayal is the last thing you expect from them. You expect them to have your back, not wanting to put your wife on her back! This hurts so much; I haven’t even touched my coffee and bagel since morning. The hunger in my stomach was filled by rage, hatred, hurt, and betrayal. It was one of those moments. I tried retracing my steps in order to see where I went wrong in all those years. We were friends, but I couldn’t, because I have been a damn good friend, and now I felt as if there was no one I could trust. Not even Henry who sat in front of me staring without saying a word. If my best friend can betray me like this, who won’t? I sat up and clasped my hands together. “You don’t need to be here Henry.” “I am your friend.” I scoffed. “I feel offended, but I won’t allow you to drink that bottle of tequila like it’s a bottle of sprite,” he said signaling to the half-finished bottle on the table. “Because when yo
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Cheska “What do you think about this one?” Prince looked up at me and stood up. I twirled around to give him a full view of the dress. He placed down the newspaper and looked at me from head to toe before speaking. “It’s great. Just like the other seven ones. You might have no ass and a flat chest, but you’re still sexy to me.” “Really Prince?” I placed both hands on my waist and frowned. “Sweetheart, it’s just a dinner party with a few celebrities that are not even half as beautiful as you are. He picked up the red dress I had thrown on the chair beside him. “I liked how this gripped your body, extremely sexy.” “The fact that you like it means I’m not wearing it.” “Oh, God. Women are so complicated.” He turned and signaled to the store assistant to come over. When she did, he told her to take all the dresses to the cashier and he would purchase all of them. “You don’t have to do that.” “Hurry and get out of that dress. I might as well buy all of them and you do a whole runway
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