“Snowflakes were starting to fly and it was well past midnight. God help me, I was crazy for her. I managed to put all of my anxiety about my past away for a while. I couldn’t think about anything beyond tonight and how she made me feel in the moment. And she returned my feelings. All this time she had thought I had a girlfriend, which is why she shied away and I finally had an explanation for her earlier distant behavior. I scurried to my car across the street and got in. I imme...diately noticed that I had left the wrapped gift from my mother—my supposed reason for coming here in the first place—on the passenger seat. Shit. Should I go back in? I wasn’t sure I trusted myself seeing her for another second again tonight. But Mom would be pissed if I had forgotten to give it to her and how would I explain that? It took all of my willpower to leave her there in the first place.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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