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early.
    When she waltzed
into the restaurant, every man’s head turned. Her sleek auburn hair barely
swept past her shoulders, and her porcelain skin glowed with the perfect amount
of makeup. She looked straight ahead, ignoring all the lusty stares from the
men and the evil stares from their significant others.
    As soon as she
spotted me, she rushed over, clicking her heeled boots against the tiled floor.
“Lennox!” she exclaimed. “It’s been forever.” She hugged me before I could
stand from my seat. She gave me one of those hugs where you sway back and forth
like young couples do during their first school dance.
    “You smell
lovely,” I said while she slung her coat over the back of her chair.
    “And you look
beautiful as always,” she replied, returning the compliment.
    “So, what have you
been up to? Any new beau’s?” Why did I know her first question would be about
my love life? She always enjoyed gouging me on my lack of guys.
    Giving her a
sarcastic smile, I took a sip of my water before answering her. “No. There’s no
one around here worth fooling with. I need to move away if I want to find
someone who’s on my level.”
    She snorted. “I
see nothing’s changed.”
    “What’s that
supposed to mean?” I asked as I took another sip of water to avoid from saying
something nasty. Her remark perturbed me.
    “It means you set
your standards too high. If you’re ever going to find someone, you need to come
down from your high horse and learn how to mingle with the common folk.”
    Her comment
deserved an eye roll and that’s exactly what it got. “Yeah…sure, and when did
you become the spinster whisperer?” I asked sarcastically. “I’m not old. I have
plenty of dating years left.”
    She shrugged. “I’m
just saying.”
    “Well, since
you’re gouging me about a boyfriend, I guess that means you’ve met someone?” I
asked, raising an eyebrow.
    A smile beamed on
her face. “You know me well, cuz”
    Oh boy, here we
go. I could tell the giddy ‘oh I’m in love’ spill was about to come.
    “He’s so amazing.
He’s gorgeous, a complete gentleman, and he is the CEO of a software company so
you know what that means…,” she gushed with excitement.
    “Yeah, he’s old,”
I said with little enthusiasm.
    She threw her
wadded up straw paper at me. “No, dummy, he’s loaded. Don’t be jealous, you’ll
find someone worth your while one day.”
    This conversation
was going nowhere fast. Quick to change the subject, I picked a topic we both
loved equally—shopping. “So, what stores do you want to hit after we eat?” 
     Three hours
later, and two thousand dollars less, I walked back to my car carrying a couple
of bags filled with two pairs of jeans, a pair of black knee-high boots, and
the cutest pale pink scarf covered with tiny purple skulls. If daddy thought he
was punishing me by not buying my damn tires, then he was painfully mistaken.
Speaking of the tire incident, I couldn’t wait until he got home from his
business trip so I could tell him how he nearly sent his daughter to an early
grave.
    “Bye, Lennox,”
Victoria shouted out to me as she set her bags in the back seat of her car.
“I’ll be over in a couple of days.” I smiled and waved back. She better not
discuss my dating life with my father. I didn’t need him on my back about a
future son-in-law.  What the hell was I thinking when I told her she could
stay at my place for a night?
    The horn on my car
beeped twice when I pushed the lock button on my keychain, and I stepped into
Starbucks for my daily Skinny Vanilla Latte. June, the barista rang up my order
without me having to tell her what I wanted. After she’d asked me on my fifth
day in a row ordering my usual, I told her she was a thirty-something still
working at a coffee shop because people like her were too idiotic to hold a
more educated job. She hasn’t spoken to me since. As if that were to make a
difference to me. Hell, if anything I enjoyed not