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“Because you wanted to save your money…probably so you could spend it all on that hooker”

The wona She’s been trapped here with us for five hours now, pressed up against theas if she’s wiling it to suck her out This is the first tiht up the hooker

It won’t be the last

“Don’t you dare lasses “I told you, I thought she was just a stripper”

And of course, because he’s so damn dense, he has no idea that the whole plane can hear hi about this now, too

But as ue loudly with him about the blow jobs, and the fact that it doesn’t even matter if she was a hooker or not—hello, he cheated on h as it is

The only silver lining in this whole thing is that I didn’t love him

I liked him but I convinced myself I liked him more than I did

That was it

Sointact, it’s only my pride that’s taken a tumble, and the fact that I feel like I’ve wastedwith alike one)

On the heartbreak scale, Roger is about a one

And believe me, I’ve hadless than ten is a blessing That’s so I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy

It’s ironic that my worst enemy is the man who did that level ten heartbreak

I sigh, partly in relief that I can feel the plane start to descend, partly because even though bygones are bygones, some people can really do a number on you

Thank god Roger won’t be one of them

There’s so about your first day back at work after a vacation Even though I’d only been gone for just over a week, and I’ve been working at my job for five years, I still feel like I’h school Even the commute from my house, over the Koolau Mountains to don Honolulu, feels like I’ anxiously on the steering wheel

It probably has a lot to do with the fact that I haven’t taken a vacation in a really long titon state for Christ Before that, I was in Seattle for ine, that wasn’t a vacation either

I shake the thought out ofin my chest, like a septic wound that will never actually heal—and stay focused on the day ahead

Even when I pull into ht hard for when I beca Director for Kahuna Hotels, I still feel like it belongs to someone else

I turn off the car and rest as, everyone told er (insert eye roll here) To get drunk, have fun, let loose I was forbidden froh I did checkIt’s like the whole office conspired to let me take a break

Now it feels like I didn’t take a break at all, I was just on sabbatical, forced to let the rest of the world do my job

But when the elevator pops me out on the tenth floor and I stride into the lobby, I feel like I’ood to be back

“Welcome back,” Kate, the receptionist, says, as I stroll over to her desk “You look well-rested” She’s a recent transplant from the island of Kauai after her old workplace, a hotel, closed due to thethey’ve had She’s sarcastic, honest and fun—my kind of people

Except, despite the cheery greeting, there’s a look of trepidation on her well-groomed brows

“You knohen you go to Vegas, the whole point is to not rest,” I ree of her station Her co Facebook, which she knows to not bother hiding from me

“So, it was a good trip?” she asks, uneasily tucking her straight black hair behind her ear

“Actually it was the trip froht now,” I tell her “Are you okay? You seeey”

Her eyes dart over to the rest of the office Since we take up the whole floor, it’s a circular design with the reception area and lobby, elevators, break roo out in a radius toward the here the executive offices and boardrooms are I’m early for work—I usually am—so the office is still a bit quiet

“We all promised ouldn’t tell you,” she says in a hush “I mean, I wanted to text you, but Desiree said she’d have my head on a stick, and I believe her Did you know she teaches Tae Kwon Do on the weekends?”

“Tell od, did they find soone? Is it etter, but I knew she was secretly gunning for my position

“Mike is gone,” she says