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given herself to him, she had given him everything including her heart.
    They both went away to the same college, both on scholarships, him on an athletic and her on an academic.  After getting caught with cocaine one too many times he was kicked out.  One night during summer break while they were hanging out they had stopped at a Kroger for some beer, where on the way out he had bought a fifty cent ring from the bubble gum machine. They both were in tears when he knelt down on the dirty asphalt and asked her to marry him.  He didn’t put the ring on her finger until he made her promise him that she wasn’t going to return to school, after a slight nod, he slipped it on. 
    Her parents were furious, when she had broken the news to them.  The only thing that saved her from being kicked out of the house was her promise to enroll in a local college.  She enrolled in culinary school while he jumped from one dead-end job to another.  She had matured, while he was still the same person he was in high school.  The bubble gum machine ring was lost years ago.
    “I was so stupid,” she mumbled.
    Trey turned to her with a grin.  “Change your mind already?”
    “Hell no!”
    “Oh you will,” he vowed before turning back to his packing.  “I’m taking my Xbox,” Trey announced.
    Summer giggled at the absurdity.  She had bought him the game last year for Christmas. “Take it Boo and please enjoy it.”
    “You’re a crazy bitch,” he shot out before racing from the bedroom. Summer was on his heels.  She leaned against the doorjamb while he disconnected his game, snatched up the cartridges and nodded to Fresh Man.  It took them two trips to get everything out, the final time he came up; he flung the keys at her before running out the door. 
    “You really are a punk ass,” she said before plucking the keys off the floor.  “I’ll have the locks changed tomorrow.”
     
    “I just told him to move out,” Summer announced, her hands still shaking from the rush of emotions.  She clutched her phone.
    “Hallelujah,” Yvette shouted.  “What happened?”
    “Tonight was the straw that broke the camel’s back.  I was just tired of him.  I came home to find dirty dishes in the sink, and him and Fresh Man playing video games.  It finally hit me that he has no ambition, he has no fucking problem mooching off me and he’d keep doing for as long as I let him.”
    “I’m glad that you finally saw him for the loser he was.”
    “I didn’t want to give up on him,” Summer said quietly. 
    “I understand, believe me I do, I’ve had my fair share of Treys.  But at the end of the day they have to man up, we can’t keep carrying them, at least I can’t, my back is tired,” she said and Summer laughed.
    “You’re right, I guess I feel a little guilty, it was all of a sudden, but I did offer to let him stay until the end of the month.”
    “Don’t worry yourself about it, it was time for him to leave and hopefully one day, he’ll realize it.  Now you can get at your fine ass boss.”
    “I don’t know why everybody thinks I want him, but I don’t,” Summer protested.
    “Yes you do.  If he even crooked his finger at you, you’d go running to him, while almost tripping over your thongs down around your ankles.”
    “That is so not true,” Summer retorted.
    “Listen, straight up, there’s nothing wrong with admitting that you’re attracted to him.  He’s fine, if you like those pretty boy types.  But I know you, you’re gonna admire him from afar, and I know you’re not gonna do anything to jeopardize his marriage.  So have your crush, because that’s all you’re gonna have for a while, because it’s tough out here, these men are crazy.” 
    “I’m not even worried about that, I’m not interested in dating anyone and since the holidays are coming up, we’re gonna be super busy at the bakery.”
    “Hey you’d better not be too busy to hang out with me.  I want to go to some