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I decided not to rise to her negativity and to instead let it go Dad had taught o to what he called an ‘inner realm’ Similar to a ‘happy place,’ it was a kind of visualization or daydrea session, combined with meditation, where you built a location in your mind that seemed as real as any other

Mine was a field of flowers in a ht summer day

On my way out of the house, I called my boyfriend, Kenny, on my cell phone We hadn’t talked in what felt like forever

Maybe we could go for coffee when I was done ork for the day My reed with this characterization of writing as “work,” but the writing hat I got paid for It didn’t pay very well— I would be the first to adh just barely

The inheritanceout for now, anyway I didn’t cooing to last forever

As usual, Kenny didn’t pick up, so I turned off the phone and threw it back inon his phone, so I knew he kneasme more and more lately

Unless he hadn’t answered because he ith a client or soh, in the past, he would have called me back when he could have

Lately, it see me, and I wasn’t sure what to do about that I returned hts to my inner realm and had calmed down by the time I reached the elevator

Realizing that Kenny hadn’t picked up yet again was certainly sending etful I was ht to look in ed around and discovered that I hadn’t brought my notebook

I must have been distracted by Raquel’s rudeness in addition to Kenny ignoring me No one in uess it was rubbing off in the for else

I couldn’t write without o back to the apartment, but I decided to stop for some caffeine first

I had planned for a quick trip in and out, but the barista was clearly new and wasn’t very quick about anything I identified his accent i aturnedaccent