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Like a good employee.
Like someone who is taking this change in career seriously.
Even if the idea of squeezing myself into a tight dress, tighter shoes, and making innuendos for what I make in a week here, in a day there, sounds much more appealing.
Thank fuck for savings, I guess.
Sneering at the latest scribbled trite phrase on the card, I rip off the half with the words, chuck it in the trash, and use the sharpie I keep hooked onto my shirt to write in all capital letters “FREE TREATS”. Afterward, I station the box of two dozen cotton candy sandwich cookies – one for every day he’s been without me – in the center of the breakroom table and give it the finger.
I refuse to enjoy anything he sends.
And double fuck him for trying to use my favorite restaurant against me.
“I don’t think you’re supposed to do that to cookies,” a male voice suddenly states, pulling my attention over my shoulder. “You know…unless you’re making food porn.”
I meet his bright green eyes with my blue and playfully poke, “Way to let your sex life secret slip.”
The tan, dirty blond-haired male, lightly laughs and innocently points to the treats. “Can I get one?”
Stepping out of the way is attached to a dramatic hand ushering, “Take as many as you fucking want.”
“Not hungry?”
“Not interested.”
“Gift?”
“Curse.”
“Boyfriend?”
“Ex.”
“Trying to win you back?”
“Yup.”
“Is it working?”
An adjustment to my shoulder bag is the only response I give.
Is it working?
No.
But it’s not not working.
I appreciate that he’s making some sort of effort to show he’s sorry.
It’s just not enough.
Or the right type.
Yes, giving my mom her job back – the thing he should’ve never taken away to begin with – was a good start and offering her and Clark a piece of property on an empty plot of no man’s land to build their dream home on was a great follow up while agreeing to pay whatever the cost in its entirety to have it constructed along with furnished was definitely a fantastic finish.
She had already forgiven him by the time he came to his senses, well before he made an effort to express his remorse.
If we’re being totally honest, I’m not sure she was ever anything more than a little upset at him for throwing that way to ruin a franchise style tantrum.
