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the curiosity was back in full force.
     
    “I shouldn't,” she
murmured, as if hearing the words out loud would make her not want to do it
anymore.
     
    It didn't work.
     
    “Then again,” the
curious questioning part of her countered. “It isn't like I'm really snooping
or anything like that. It's more rude or inconsiderate, right?” She knew she
was trying to justify what she wanted, but she couldn't quite stop herself now
that she'd started. It was just too easy to make excuses. “And it's not like
Philip's been all nice and polite himself. He's had his own moments of being
rude and inconsiderate.”
     
    She reached out,
her hand hesitating as it hovered over the note. The brief internal debate
raged for another minute before Jennifer snatched up the wrinkled paper and
spread it on the table in front of her.
     
    The first thing
that she noticed was that the handwriting wasn't as feminine as she'd thought
it would be. It wasn't particularly masculine either, just neat and
business-like. She supposed it just supported her earlier thought that maybe
this mystery woman would be a better fit for Philip. Then she read the note and
everything else faded away. She read the words twice, desperate to draw meaning
from something so cryptic.
     
    Philip, it has
been too long since we have seen each other. Now that we need each other,
perhaps we should forget our past and move towards a closer relationship. I
hope to see you soon. J.
     
    Jennifer carefully
folded the note and slid it back across the desk to where it had fallen.
Apparently, she hadn't learned her lesson with Brad. She was seriously
regretting taking the note. Though vague, it indicated a deep and personal
connection with Philip, a history and level of intimacy that didn't appear to
need any explanation. It hadn't been perfect, she could see, but whoever J was,
she seemed to be willing to forget about it and try to start again.
     
    Brad immediately
sprang to mind. Wasn't this exactly what he was doing? He'd asked her to put
aside their rocky past and try again. She hadn't wanted to consider it, not
really, since she had Philip, but now it seemed like Philip was more interested
in mending his previous relationship with J than starting a new one with her.
Sure, the note was crumpled, but he'd kept it, and J had kissed his cheek. He
hadn't disagreed when she'd suggested seeing him again and he'd obviously been
intrigued enough to watch her walk away. Jennifer wasn't stupid. If her time
with Brad had taught her anything, it was what it looked like when a man was
cheating.
     
    Okay, she conceded,
maybe it wasn't actually cheating because it hadn't sounded like Philip and J
had been doing anything, not yet anyway. And, it was true that she and Philip
didn't necessarily have a real relationship, or at least not one that they'd
defined. If they didn't know what they were to each other, could it still be
considered cheating?
     
    “Well,” Jennifer
stood. “He could've at least told me that we weren't anything serious.” She
wasn't speaking loudly, but she had to speak the words. Sometimes things came
across differently, more clearly, just because they were heard with ears rather
than in her mind. Her habit of talking to herself had driven Brad crazy.
     
    Brad. Jennifer sighed
as she gathered her things. The two men just kept circling each other in her
head, alternating which one seemed to be the smarter choice. With Brad, she had
this tumultuous history that made her suspicious and untrusting. Their break-up
had been one of the hardest things Jennifer had ever had to go through, but she
ended up thinking of it as being the best thing that had ever happened to her.
Now, he was back, promising a new life with all of the good and none of the
bad. And there had been good between the bad. Or had it been bad between the
good? Did it even matter?
     
    Then there was
Philip. Like Brad, he seemed to shift personalities, but none of Philip's
quirks included making