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  Robert had been mad when he saw Jason at the airport. As much as he valued their friendship he wanted for Loren and him to be alone. Jason hugged Loren then he left. Loren ate the meal that Robert packed for her. He watched in sadness as she went on the plane. When the plane took off he started to walk to the parking lot, but before he could reach his car he saw Jason standing there.

  “What are you doing here?” Robert said sadly.

  “I thought you want to talk after Loren left. Plus I wanted to say good-bye to her and my car is getting fix.” Jason said

  “Seriously? I guess I can give you a ride.” Robert said as he started to walk to the car.

  The car ride was very quietly. Instead of going to Jason’s house he went to the gym. Jason knew that he needed to let off some steam. Robert just let go of his best friend. He didn’t care that might make Jason mad. He was tried of Jason always being the one that would interfere with his relationship with Loren. For four months he would be left to deal with the raging emotions. He stopped his car in front of the gym, but he decided at the last minute not to go. So he kept driving. He decided to go to a bar. Robert had stopped drinking after he proposed to Maria. He didn’t know if it was Jason ruining his last moments with Loren, but he just had to have a beer. He stopped by a bar that was opened and parked. This time he got out of the car and Jason followed. He sat down at the bar and he ordered a pitcher of beer. Jason didn’t want any beer so he got a ginger ale. Jason still didn’t say anything he knew how he felt. Jason had felt that way when Loren started to hanging out with Robert. Robert didn’t say anything until he finished the whole pitcher of beer.

  “What the fuck are you doing here? YOU ARE ALWAYS GETTING IN THE Way!!!! I can’t spend ONE DAMN moment alone with her without you being there.” Robert said in a rage.

  “I understand how you feel.” Jason said concern.

  “NO, YOU DON’T BECAUSE IF YOU DID YOU WOULDN’T BE AT THE AIRPORT!!!” Robert said getting very loud.

  “Maybe we should leave. You are drunk. I will drive you home. Let’s go.” Jason said starting to see people were looking.

  “WHY WOULD I GO ANYWHERE WITH YOU? So you can steal my car too?” Robert said.

  Just then Robert took a swing at Jason, but miss because he too drunk and ended up falling down. After Jason picked Robert off of the ground he took Robert’s keys and drove him to his house. He unlocked the door and put Robert in his room. Luckily for Jason he knew what room Robert had because Loren had shown him the house one day. He put him his bed and went into the den. He knew that if left the house right then Loren would be mad at him. He knew he couldn’t call Loren until tomorrow when her plane would touch the ground. He turned call his boss and told him he would not come to work in the next day. He told Loren it would be a bad idea showing up at the airport, but she wanted Robert to have someone he could talk to. Jason knew that Loren was right about one thing Robert needed a friend, but it couldn’t be him. It had to be someone he trusted.

  Robert slept all night and woke up to the smell of coffee. Jason had made sure that only smoothing music was playing. Jason even made Robert breakfast which kind of made him mad because he normally breakfast for beautiful women not dudes. Jason and Robert was friends, but for the first time he had a chance to think about the situation. Jason’s best friend also wouldn’t be coming back until four months. Jason didn’t sleep all that well. Robert came into the kitchen and Jason gave him a black coffee and fixes him a plate of food.

  “Here is a cup of coffee.” Jason said.

  “I don’t need a cup of coffee. I need a cup of rum. What are doing here? Don’t you have a home to go to?” Robert said with attitude.

  “Yes, I do I didn’t want to leave Loren’s house unlock all night long. My cab should be here any minute. I will leave alone. I come back when you are feeling better.” Jason said.

  “Why bother? Just leave.”

  Robert took a sip of his coffee then goes to where Jason was. Robert punches Jason square in the face. Jason had to tell himself over and over why he was there. Instead of Jason hitting back Jason walks out of the house where his cab just pulled up. Jason gets in and gave the cab driver directions to his home.

  Robert finished his coffee and food and grabs his keys and went to his car. He drives to a liquor store and buys four cases of beer, rum, and vodka. Then he goes to the ATM and pulls out some money. He went back home. He went inside his room and opened a bottle of beer and started to drink.

  Loren just gets off the plane and her phones rings and it was Jason.

  “Hello, Jason did you two talk? Tell me about.”

  “Loren, I tried to talk to him, but he is being an ass. He punched me in the face. Do you want to know how much strength it took me not to punch him back? I think he needs to talk to someone, but not me.” Jason said seriously.

  “That doesn’t sound like Robert. Why did he punch you?” Loren said surprised.

  “He blames me for getting in the way of you two relationship. Loren, it is going to take me a long time before I could go over there and talk to Robert again.” Jason said even more seriously.

  “Thanks for trying.”

  “I only put up with this because I love you.”

  “I know. You are my closes friend. I love you too. Don’t worry the next time you see him, he would be doing better. Thanks again.” Loren said as she hangs up her cell phone.

  She calls the only person that she knew that Robert is the closes to. She calls Steve. Steve and Robert grew up together. Steve has a way of making Robert see reason. Steve told her he come to see about Robert next week because he on a business trip. She hangs up the phone with Steve and pick up her luggage. She headed down and waits to be picked up. Maria said she would be picking her up from the airport. She saw a sign with her name and she walks towards it. It was a person driver. When she got into the car Thomas her ex was there.

  “What are doing here?” Loren said shocked.

  “I’m doing a favorite for Maria because she had to go to the hospital to get special treatments. She would be back in a week. Didn’t Maria tell you that you would be staying in my house?” Thomas said with a smile.

  “No, she didn’t mention it at all. Just great.”

  “Isn’t it though? Ok let’s go home. I know I am glad you are here.”

  This was the last thing she wanted to deal with right now. She had to see how bad Maria gotten. Now she would be living with Thomas. The funny thing about that was he wanted to live with her that ended up ending their relationship. Now Thomas got his wish. And her job didn’t really start until next week except for some things she didn’t how to work.

  Chapter Nine

  As soon as Steve got into town he went by the address that Loren gave him over the phone. He took a deep breath and rings the doorbell. Robert answered the door unshaven and dirty. He let Steve in his house. At first glance the only thing that looked bad was Robert. He looked like he hadn’t taken a bath in a couple of days. The living room, dining room, and den was all clean. The kitchen looked in disarray. The kitchen had nothing but pizza boxes and Chinese food in it. Robert sat at the table with his cheese pizza with chicken lo mien on top of it.

  “What the hell are you eating?” Steve said.

  “This is one of the last meals we ate together.”

  “Oh, Loren. Maria doesn’t eat delivery pizza. Are you drunk?”

  “No, but I am about to be.” Jason said reaching for his bottle of beer.

  “Do you remember the last time you drunk? You ended up with Maria who you wouldn’t proposed to if you were sober. What would happen when Loren see her house like this and you like this. Do you think she would want you now looking like that?” Steve said.

  “No. Let me go take a shower and get dress.” R
obert said sadly.

  “And we are going to get you out of this house. Pack you a bag because you will be staying at my house until with get you back on the horse.” Steve said.

  While Robert was getting dress Steve started to clean up the kitchen. He wondered why he didn’t mess up the other rooms. Steve opened the refrigerator and threw out all the liquor. He didn’t want his friend go down this road. He knew it wasn’t Robert’s marriage that he was having problems with it was Loren. He knew that since he was children he had drawn a girl that was in his dream. It looked like Loren. Robert shaved and put on some more clothes. The kitchen was spotless. Robert was in no condition to drive so Steve took his car. When they arrived at Steve’s house he fixes Robert a fruit salad. He figures he needs something healthy. Robert looked like he has gained fifteen pounds.

  “What is going on with you?” First, you punch out one of Loren’s closes friends. Then, you start drinking and eating strange food. You are in love with Loren. What’s going on?” Steve said.

  “I stayed in this hell of a marriage with a very controlling woman. Now she wants to end it. I keep telling that if I knew that my life would go this way I would have divorced her a long time ago. Ten years of marriage and I have nothing to show for it. I am about to have no wife, no children, and no place to live. Did you know that Jason came to the airport to say good-bye to Loren? She talks to him about everything. Right when it looked like we was having some head way then guess who came to ruin it. Now she is London with my soon-to-be ex wife.”

  “I gave up my life as report to fulfill her dreams. I tried to do every thing I knew how to as a man as I was taught to be a husband. Nothing works. Now I have to rebuild my life. I feel like a failure. That’s what really bothers me.” Robert said.

  “You are not a failure. My old friend in life things will fail, but you are not a failure because things don’t work out the way you planned it out to be. That doesn’t make you less. It makes you human. Plus that it is life.” Steve said.

  “And I keep having this fear that Loren is going some where. She is my dream woman. Every time I close my eyes. I see her as my wife. We live in the house that she brought and I have two children two boys and one girl. And I am making breakfast in the morning and Loren is cooking dinner. Or some times we are having sex while the children are away at the grandparents.”

  “That sounds nice. How was the sex in the dream?” Steve said.

  “The sex is amazing in the dream. Did I tell you that she kiss me when we arrived at house because the house was done? The kiss was astonishing. I could feel her nipples tight up while she kisses me. Her body just felt remarkable. I think about every time I wake up and every time I go to sleep. I can’t help it. She is perfect.” Robert said.

  “So what do you want to do?”

  “I want to regain my life back.”

  “How are you going to do it?”

  “Chris still wants me to be his partner at his restaurant. He told he wants to expand his business. I guess I could learn something about that.” Robert said.

  “That’s a started. First take this week to go exercise. When Loren comes back you can stay with me until you find you a place. Go make you a list of things you wanted to do, but Maria didn’t allow you to. This week I am on vacation so let’s do the things you want to do. What is first on your list?”

  “Well, I have already did it by not exercising, but I feel disgusting.” Robert said as he pulled out a pen in paper.

  Loren had typed Robert an e-mail every day, but she didn’t receive a reply. That day she called the house and there was no answer. She knew something was wrong. It was hard for at first to be under the same roof as Thomas, but he was so sweet and understanding. Thomas would make sure she had breakfast every morning and dinner every night. Right before Maria came to the house he took out to a night club or something like that. She was starting to think she made a mistake ended their relationship.

  Another month rolled by and she finally got in touch with Robert. She loved to hear his voice. He final started e-mail her. He told her about all the exciting things that was going in his life and she longed to be there. Plus every night she would have a dream about Robert and her being married having two boys and one girl. She missed him dearly. Thomas helped take care of Maria and she was glad to have him around.

  Thomas came home and he bought flowers he knew it was too much to hope that she would give ‘them’ another try. Thomas was going crazy with her there. It was the way she moved. It was the way she move her lips when she talked that made him wanted to kiss her passionately. It was the clothes she chose to sleep in that was unusually sexy to him. She wore a sliming butterfly t-shirt with butterflies shorts. He loved that she smell so good like a sweet desert. He is not normally a man who like desert, but he eat a piece of cake or pie or a tart before he gone to bed. It was her smell that drove him crazy more than before. So because he couldn’t taste the sweetest between her legs he would just eat the sweets instead.

  The first moment that he saw her when she entered the town car his heart jumped. It had been more than a year and he understood now why it didn’t work. He was acting like a little shy boy instead of a man that she deserved. And he was that man. He tried to prove to her every day that she would be the perfect fix for his life. And he would prove every day if they got married that he deserves to be with her. He was scared that would be one person that would get in his way, and that person would be Maria’s husband, Robert. He remembered overhearing a conversation that Robert had with Loren. He told her that she shouldn’t be with him because he was not the perfect fit her. He never told Maria just incase he read too much into their ‘friendship’. He told Maria he would be there for her and that just what he wanted to do. Seeing Loren again sometimes makes his heart skip a couple of beats and he knew that he missed her.

  Loren tried to act like everything was alright, that she was alright, but she wasn’t. She needed to talk to her friend. She missed Jason. She liked talking to him when she had a problem now he wasn’t here. She wished she could tell him how now Thomas and her are strangers. She wish should sit around Jason’s house and talk about her problems.

  “Hello, Jason.”

  “Loren, is that you? How are you?”

  “Have you and Robert talk at all?”

  “No.” Jason said and hung up the phone.

  Loren didn’t want to press the issue. She could tell that Jason was still mad at Robert for hitting him. She has been having these dreams about Robert. She was afraid to close her eyes because she opens it she see Maria. Maria has always been a little thick in her appearance is now almost too skinny. Almost every night while Maria was up she would fix her dinner. Her state was too much. Now Maria seem like she couldn’t take solid foods so she would cook soup. They made sure she drunk a lot of juices just so she could meet her calorie count. Maria ate the bowl that she brought her and fell to sleep afterwards. Loren had been tried taking care of Maria that she didn’t have time to enjoy London. She didn’t even notice the beautiful street or talk to people who passed her. The day had proven to be a success only because Maria ate her food.

  She went to bed early and had a dream. She dreams that Robert had nothing on, but a pair of boxer briefs on. His feet were neatly groomed. His legs were thick and a little hairy. His tightly fit stomach matches his muscle chest. His arms were out as if he was saying come to me. Her eyes move up to his lips so full and hungry for his lips and she wanted a taste. She went to his arms, but not before looking into his eyes. His brown eyes melt her pain away. All he did was hold her in her dreams. She awaken with the need to e-mail Robert. She goes to her computer and tells him how she misses having him around to talk to. Maria was waiting in the computer room for her.

  “Good morning Maria. I am glad to see you up and about.” Loren said.

  “Me too. I need some regular food. I think I can e
at now. Help me to the kitchen and you can fix me some food.” Maria said with a smile.

  Loren helps Maria out of her chair. Loren could tell that she was feeling suitable to walk. Maria was feelings so good that she walked the entire way to the kitchen. Loren put on a pot of coffee on. And she saw there was fresh rolls on the kitchen counter and fruit. She cuts up the fruit and put the fresh roll on the plate for Maria.

  “Do you want some coffee as well?” Loren said with a slight smile.

  “I would thank you. Loren, I wanted to tell you some things. I want you to know what really happen when Robert proposed to me. I have been holding on to some things to long. We haven’t been dating that long. In fact it was only three months. I met Robert at the bar. He was drinking. I convinced him to have a couple more with me. When he was drunk I brought him home with me. I remember once said that people tell the truth when they have been drinking. I asked him to marry me. He told me no.”

  “So when he woke up in the morning I fixed him breakfast. And told him that he was he serious about asking me to marry him? He told me he didn’t remember and he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.” Maria said.

  “Did you ever tell him that? I mean did you ever tell him the truth.” Loren said shocked.

  “No, I didn’t. I knew our whole marriage was built on a lie, but I felt that over time it became real. I made sure that I kept in contact with his mother not because I liked her. I needed to know if Robert was cheating on me or not. I know Robert tells his mother and father everything. His mother didn’t like me so I made sure that he visited his parents a limited amount.”

  “I don’t understand why you would do that? Why didn’t you ask him when he woke up to marry you again? He probably would have married you any way. And why do you say that his mother doesn’t like you?” Loren asked.