BAD ROMANCE by MARIE-ANTOINETTE ADDO (digital e reader txt) 📕

Chapter 1

IT WAS EARLY TUESDAY MORNING AND ANNIE WAS WAKING, to her work “Ouch, my back hurts, is there some Tylenol in this house at all?” Annie walked across the hall into the bathroom to look in the medicine cabinet to see if there some medicine. “Oh, God”, she said under her breadth. Shouting just a little after she said, “TONI!” she waited for a response. “WHAT!” she heard her roommate’s voice from the other side of the hall. “You do realize it was your duty to get the medicine from the store right?” she said leaving the bathroom into her friends and roommates bedroom, “Yes I do, but I had a date with Gregory”. Gregory was a really nice guy, tall, dark, English and of course drop-dead-gorgeous. Toni has been asking Annie to go on dates since after college since her no-boys policy during college, but Annie simply ignored her friend and has been drowning herself with work these past few months. “I know you had a date with him but couldn’t you have at least asked him to drive you to the store on your way back to the house?” she asked trying to sound less mad than she was for Toni rubbing her date in her face. “ I could have but we had sex the night before and knowing guys he would have suspected I was pregnant, and I’m not about to spoil what we have because of some little thing growing inside of me”. Annie understood where her friend was coming from and decided to drop the matter because she didn’t like arguing with her friend. Instead she decided to go to the store on her way to work.
“Can I get a birth control and a pregnancy test please?” Annie was at the pharmacy and buying some things for her friend, “That will be $34 dollars ma’am including the Tylenol”. “Thank you miss”. Annie made her way to her car realizing she was late for her job decided to cross red light and pay the consequences of a ticket. Within 24 minutes Annie was at work. “Hello Miss Johnson”, the receptionist said smiling, “Hello Beth. I like the new look”, “Thanks”. The receptionist a shy petit lady, who hardly wore any make-up, with round rimmed glasses, really long black hair, brown eyes, and the style as if three year-old was left to dress her up had had a complete makeover overnight. She was now wearing contacts, just enough make-up, dyed her hair really light brown with blonde highlights, and was now wearing an LBD, appropriate for work, “I have a boyfriend now”, Beth said drawing Annie to a halt. “What did you say?” Annie asked not sure if she had heard Beth right. “I said I have a boyfriend now”, she repeated smiling showing all 34 teeth. She doesn’t have on braces anymore Annie thought “Annie did you hear me?” Leaving her thoughts Annie said “Congratulations Beth I wish you both the best”. “Thank you. You know what Harry has an Italian friend I’m sure you would like to date…do you want me to set it up?” “No I’m going to focus on my career for now…but thanks anyway”.
Moving to her desk Annie thought, I should be the one with a guy I mean come on, I was popular in school…no scratch that High School doesn’t matter in the real world, I’m independent, I have a car and not to mention I’m pretty well off on my own,… a guy will only take all these achievements away from me…guys will come later. Or…A knock rattled at her door turning her away from her thoughts. It was her secretary, Devonté, gay and really proud of it, you could smell his $60 dollar female scented perfume from a distance but somehow she didn’t smell it. He was looking very different today, this is not how Devonté looks on a daily basis, he looked beat up. “Stop staring at me like that? So I got beat up on my way here it really doesn’t matter I’m just gonna run to the hospital for some care I set an appointment with the payphone on the corner of the street. Gosh, those things are filthy; can you believe people actually talk through that? Eww!!” She laughed he still managed to be fabulous even when in pain. “Okay, you go ahead”, she said, “I’m really not planning on doing anything today”. “Actually Annie you do”, Devonté opened his Prada bag and picked out his notebook, “You have a meeting with the head of co-operate at 9:00 this morning, lunch with you family at 2:00 and a dinner with a special someone I set you up with…don’t ask I’m not cancelling you’re going, and he has your address s o don’t even try to get out of it his name is Adam, he’s hot”. “You don’t have the right to be giving my address to random people I don’t know, got it?” , “Got it. So you’ll go?”. “Yes I will go”. “Yes!!” Devonté started to jump up and down, and stopped suddenly when a sharp pain went through him, “Ow!” “I think you better get yourself to the hospital now” she said smiling faintly, “Yes I guess so also”.
At 2:00 Annie had lunch with her family and had dinner with Adam. She got home really late at around 10:00pm and was really exhausted. She went straight to the kitchen to get something to drink and wash her hand. Suddenly the lights flicked on, squinting against the bright light she tried to make out the blurry figure standing by her door…then the figure spoke, “Where have you been all night?” she recognized the voice as Toni’s and continued on to get her water. “I went out for dinner with this boring dude, I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow. I’m tired right now.”

Publication Date: 04-21-2010

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