Page 46 of I see you Beauty

“Hey, sweetie. What’s up?” Kelly picks up in her typical good mood, and I hear her nail file working—as I almost always do.

“I need some crazy Kelly distraction,” I sigh and sink onto my creamy white couch.

“How crazy are you thinking?” she asks, and I can just picture Kelly’s eyes lighting up with excitement as she starts dreaming up the wildest plans to drag me into.

“I need a break from my life and don’t want to think about anything,” I explain tiredly, leaning back and putting the back of my hand over my eyes to take a quick breath.

I try to push back the images of the last few days as best I can. It isn’t easy, but it’s becoming increasingly clear how much I need this right now.

“Oh, I’ve got just the thing for you, sweetheart. Just let me do it. I’ll get back to you and kidnap you tonight. You’ll see.” With these cryptic words, Kelly hangs up without me being able to say anything else. Great.

Maybe asking Kelly for a distraction wasn’t such a good idea after all. But now the ball has started rolling, and I know my best friend is unstoppable, so I guess it’s time to let her surprise me and just go with it.

“No way!” I snap at Kelly and cross my arms in front of my chest so as not to hide my displeasure when she stops the car.

Has she completely gone mad? Where did Kelly get the idea to bring me here, of all places?

“Come on, Cora. You wanted to blow off steam, and where better to do that than at a private lesson with a hot and incredibly trained young guy?” Kelly wiggles her eyebrows with a grin, and I could scream.

He’s exactly who I wanted to be distracted from, and here she is, dragging me right to him. This is the bad karma I’ve attracted and conjured up through all my stupid decisions. I’m sure of it.

Nevertheless, I continue to shake my head vehemently. I’m definitely not going to a private lesson with Ezra and Kelly. She’d see right through me, and then I’d have no way to hide from it. But I want to hide and pretend it’s not real. I shouldn’t be dying of heartbreak over someone I barely know.

Ezra and I have never had a meaningful conversation that truly allowed me to get to know him better. So how can I say I miss him and always think about him when he’s not with me? For fuck’s sake!

I’d like to blame it on the sex and say that it clouds my brain and doesn’t let me see and think clearly, but Ezra and I haven’t slept together yet. At least not entirely…

“Cora honey, what’s wrong?” Kelly probes, placing a hand on my shoulder, and I see her give me a worried look out of the corner of my eye. Damn.

I sigh before smiling weakly.

“Nothing. Things aren’t going very well between me and Thomas right now… I wanted to take my mind off things, spend a nice evening with my best friend, and not stare at the abs of a guy who’s far too young for us,” I reply and sink into my seat in frustration.

“Hmm. I’m sorry about that, sweetie. I thought you’d be happy to see him again, and it would take your mind off things and calm you down a bit.”

I look at her, startled, but quickly try to put on a neutral face again.

“What makes you think I’d be happy to see Ezra again? Besides, he’s my neighbor. In theory, I see him every day,” I interject indifferently and shrug my shoulders as I look away from her.

“Yes, but here you would see him without your jealous husband, and you could get back some of your old fire through him… But if you don’t want to, then we can leave. I’m sure he doesn’t mind that he closed his club early for us. He won’t have too much of a loss of earnings because of it,” this wicked witch plays with my conscience.

Because a wave of guilt instantly overcomes me, I feel bad, knowing I can’t take all my problems out on Kelly or Ezra. Although strictly speaking, he’s at the top of my list of issues. Even so, he closed the club early for us, and I can’t leave him hanging like that.

“Fine!” I snort irritably and get out of the car.

I can feel her stupid, superior grin without looking at her, so I grumble angrily.

“I hope you’ve at least brought better clothes for me today. Last time was downright embarrassing.” I continue to tease her because I’m still angry that she brought me here.

But it’s not Kelly’s fault since she knows nothing. Still, I need to be angry with someone and vent my frustration. I can take it out on the other trainer during training because one thing is clear: I’m not going to train with Ezra.

“Oh, and you can have Ezra this time. I’ll take this…”

“Tobi?” Kelly helps me with an amused grin, as his name has slipped my mind.

“That’s right. I saw you eyeing my young neighbor last time, so I’ll gladly let you have him.”

With that, we enter the boxing club, but to our surprise, we only find Ezra here. I give Kelly a bitter look, suspecting again that she’s set this up. But she shrugs her shoulders ignorantly as we walk toward Ezra.

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