The drive to the station was short. It had been quite a day full of a lot of activity, ranging from close call seductions, kisses, and now a trip to the police station. I got out of the car, hoping that I wouldn't come up empty in the interrogation of the two culprits. They had been caught in the act and there was no way they could talk themselves out of it. “You there yet?” Michael asked on the phone. As a reward for nailing the culprits on his own, I had let him take the rest of the day off on a date with Julia. It was the least I could do to make up for getting carried away in the ordeal with Tara's seductive nuances and then with Tamika…I wanted to keep Tamika out of my mental space for the time being as it would help me in no small way in keeping to my end of the agreement of no attachment. “Yeah, I'm at the station. How are things going over there?” I asked as I followed the lead of the officer who took me to where they were being interrogated. “Pretty well. Julia says hi,”

The kiss had me surprised and had me wanting to be surprised even more by Michael who never seemed to possess such a tendency to be that audacious in his advances.But then, it turned out I had misread him in no small way. The feeling of his lips was quite inexplicable. The texture was just… right on mine. I wanted to be kissed even more but he seemed to slowly withdraw from me.“Oh my… Julia, I'm so sorry, I just happened to lose control of my impulses and I just…” he seemed a bit scared for having taken his chance when it had presented itself. “I'm sorry that you—”Without wasting one more moment on words, I pulled him back into the kiss. He didn't know just how urgently the sparks were flying within me. There were just a lot of unsaid words about how much I treasured him that could only be said in those kisses. He wouldn't dare to deny me the chance to express myself on his lips. “Julia…”I wasn't going to give him any breathing space whatsoever. Was I trying to suffocate him? Hel

“It was all the stupid things I did with that bastard and he just wants to use it all against me right now…” I was probably regretting the fact that I had ever run into Randy, let alone date him. Dolph seemed agitated about the video. It had gotten to him, regardless of how much he had been trying to hide it from the very start. He had barely looked me in the eye since I had come downstairs.That made me feel even more ashamed of myself as I felt so cheap and demeaned. My self-worth had plummeted all the way down to the deepest depths imaginable. It made me feel unable to stand myself. I took a seat beside Dolph who was silent, like a disappointed lover. We had agreed we wouldn't let our emotions get in the way of anything but there we were.“I'm sorry this is all taking you by surprise…” I tried to break the ice that was beginning to settle between the both of us but the coldness he was showing me at that point was simply impregnable. “This is a mistake from my past which has come

“Where's she?” I questioned myself as I was looking around everywhere for Tamika. I was beginning to get scared that my coldness towards her had resulted in her doing something way overboard.Her room was intact. Everything was in place except Tamika in her bed. She never got up that early for anything. Had she decided to get help for herself after my show of jealousy-inspired coldness? It seemed most likely.There wasn't a single trace of her in the room. Not even a goodbye note to let me know if she was leaving for good. My heart was about to explode from the unbearable feeling of having lost her.“I’ll have to call you back, Michael. You can head over to the office and cover up for me until I'm back.” I was trying my best not to show the emotions that were boiling within me as they threatened to spill out into my voice.“Sure thing…” Michael said as he hung up instantly, leaving me all alone to face the music I had decided to compose for myself. My mind was going crazy with all so

Was it weird? Hell yeah, it was. But then, I just had to drive with Julia to Randy's place as that was the only way I could locate Tamika.The ride had been utterly quiet so far as she hadn't begun directing me to where that bastard lived. I just couldn't wait till I got my hands on him. I was going to make him pay for putting us through all that trouble. “Hello…” Julia had me feeling weird with the way she said that to me. It felt like she was trying to say, ‘I’m right here, don't just act like you don't see me.’I had zoned out into my thoughts to the point where I had almost thought myself to be all alone in the car and she had just brought me back to reality with that.“Sorry… I was just too caught up in my thoughts…” I apologized still with my eyes on the road. “You're Julia, right?” I instantly felt weird for asking such an irrelevant question in an attempt to spark a conversation. “Of course, I'm Julia. Why else would I be in the car if I wasn't.” She laughed as she said that