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Just as she was pulling back, a car sped past her, crashing through a large puddle and further soaking Zoe This day could not get any worse, she thought, wipingwhen soh she started driving once again, but apparently not fast enough for the people behind her, who acco
After the day she had she wasn’t too surprised to find Trevor’s pickup truck parked in the roan she did her best to park across the street, trying to ignore the cars that sped past her, telling her off, and adding a special blast of the horn just in case she didn’t quite get the e the first time
When she tried to close theshe received another little surprise when theslid up noiselessly Well, that’s a relief, she thought, grabbing her purse and cli out of the car She was really afraid she’d have to pay three hundred dollars to have her s fixed, again She closed the door and turned to walk across the street when an odd swooshing sound caught her attention
Praying that is was just her iination, Zoe turned around and frowned Why did herlook weird? She pushed her wet hair out of her face and leaned forward to get a better look It didn’t take long before she realized that herhad come off its tracks
She wiped her wet hands on her soaked skirt and gripped the edge of theand tried to pull it up only to have theslip through her hands and slide further down
"Oh no you don’t," sheher best to yank it back up The last thing she needed was for theto slide down into the door where it would have to stay until she could scrounge up the money to have it fixed With no job and no prospects that wasn’t happening any tiood chance that she’d be living out of her car soon she wanted to keep it dry and ed to pull theup several inches One last pull should do it, she decided, gripping thetightly and pulling as hard as she could When theslid up easily she couldn’t help but chuckle Finally things were-
Her hands slipped and before she could grab theit slid down quickly into the door and if the noise that folloas any indication, cracked She stared nu moment before she picked up her purse, not at all surprised when the strap broke off, or when the heel on her left shoe snapped off aher ruined purse to her chest, she wobbled towards the front door, only getting stuck in the ht one, before she found herself on the front stoop, searching her purse for her keys By the ti violently fro for the first time in five years
She opened the door, spotted her nowthat her next door neighbor took it easy on her tonight since she really wasn’t sure that she could handleher best not to ruin her landlord’s carpeting, shethat she needed the ultimate pickup after the day she had She knew she shouldn’t, especially since she would have to live off what little savings she had, but she just couldn’t help herself She called up Black Jack’s Pizzeria and ordered the special, a two liter bottle of Coke, a large order of chicken fingers with extra honey o style pizza called, The Monster
For once the customary one hour wait for delivery didn’t bother her She pulled off her s and e of clothes as she headed for the bathroohbor remained that way
She quickly pulled off her soaked, coffee stained, andas she pretreated it and got it into the wash tonight it should be fine, at least she hoped it would She didn’t exactly have the funds needed to go out and buy a new suit for job interviews This one, with the aid of eable blouses, had lasted for three years and she’d been counting on it to last another two
After a five eneric stain pretreatht, as it now? Three years ago? Or was it five? The realization that she hadn’t had sex in over five years was rather depressing, she thought, tossing the condoms back under the bathroo reminder that her love life, social life, and professional life just plain sucked