Forever, Please (Please #4)
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Still…a girl could look!
“But when are you going to get back out there?” Jasmine asked, as her knowing chuckles subsided.
These girls, to some extent—Kate more so than Jasmine—knew her history. They knew about the bad nights and the dark days. They knew her recovery from the scared, weak woman her ex-boyfriend Jim made. They were her support network most of the time, but sometimes, like now, they branched out and pushed.
Krista shrugged uncomfortably. Jasmine was right to push. Krista was young. She’d made some mistakes—one in particular—but she couldn’t let that dictate the rest of her life. She did need to move on. She needed to learn to trust again. She needed to find someone safe who wouldn’t jerk her around.
She just didn’t feel like starting today. She said as much.
“But you do need to, though,” Jasmine persisted in a quiet voice.
Krista sighed, tears springing to her eyes unbidden. “Jim got ahold of a Facebook account. He’s been messaging with threats.”
“What?” Kate yelled. “When did this happen? Why am I just hearing about this?”
Krista waved her away, desperate not to let Jim ruin her day. “It was bound to happen, right? Even when he was cheating on me, or…the other stuff…he was always possessive. He thought we were going to get married,” Krista snorted in derision. “It’s just a computer. He doesn’t know where I am.”
“What’d you do? Did you contact his parole officer?” Kate pushed with round eyes.
Krista shrugged. “He wasn’t breaking any laws. I closed all my social media accounts.”
“I never use that crap, anyway. You’re not missing anything,” Jasmine deflected.
“Well, me neither—hence us not knowing this first-hand, but… Shit.” Kate stared at her drink.
The girls stared at their drinks for a quiet moment, each reliving some memory from Jim they’d rather forget. After a second, Jasmine said, “What did that salesman say when you waved his paper in front of his face?”
She could turn around on a dime, thank God. She steered the conversation back to safer waters.
After a deep breath, Krista said, “I didn’t hear what he said—I sprinted out of there too fast!”
“He wasn’t mad?”
“No. When I met him later, he was smiling about it. Definitely not mad.”
“Oh my god…” Jasmine had a somber look, like she’d just found out someone had just died. “He totally knows he makes you nervous!”
“Yup,” Krista said, peeling the label off her beer. “It was a print-out of some graphs for a sales presentation.”
“He works on the same floor?”
“No, thank God. He printed it from the art department. It had his name on it and everything. He had to go reprint.”
Jasmine started laughing.
“There’ll be no living with him now. You’re screwed,” Kate said as she shook her head.
“Yup.”
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