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CHAPTER 3

My phone rings, stirring lance over at the clock It’s ht? I roll over and pick up the phone to see Michael’s na on the screen My heart leaps into ers tremble as I answer it and press it to my ear

"Hey," I say, my voice soft, yet shaky

I don’t knohy Michael is finally calling I don’t know if I’ fro worse? Or is he calling to ask for me back? Do I even want him back? My mind spins as I wait for his voice to fill my ear

"Hey," Michael says, his voice the sa, masculine

"How are you?"

What as stupid question to ask I’ve thought about what I want to say to Michael a thousand ti how he is would come out of my mouth Lame

"I’m okay How are you?"

I roll to my back, not really sure what to say He hasn’t spoken to ht about thisdown the street, when I’one over it into say Only now that he’s on the phone and I haveout

How do you explain to someone that they co ot

I don’t even have it in hs That kind of frustratesabout it "Listen, we both needed ti anywhere, and I had to do it We can’t be together"

"Why?" I say, exasperated

"Because it’s just not a good tiht you understood it was just "

If he says sex If he tellsto die a littlea hard tone, finally

He goes silent and I know that’s what he was about to say

"I thought we made it clear that’s all it could be"

"We spent seventhe tiether It wasn’t just sex You knoasn’t"

"It was always sexual," he argues "Half our conversations were sexual"

"So? Most couples sex talk, Michael It’s not abnoroes silent

"It was e I have a high sex drive I’ve had it for as long as I can remember I out do most men I meet, but I’ve never, not ever been slutty about it I enjoy sex, I crave it on a higher scale than most women, but I aht it was a problem, not until now Not until this very second

"What’s that supposed to ainst the headboard

"You and I both knoas about sex for you, more than it was for me God, we talked about it all the time It’s all we talked about sometimes"